“In total, OpenAI’s expenses to Microsoft amounted to $17.2 billion.”
Our reading:
OpenAI's total expenses to Microsoft in 2025 were $17.2 billion, including a $6.047 billion cost-of-revenue charge.
Assessment: Unresolved
What happened
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
We checked, and the evidence so far doesn’t settle it.
Judged on a plain reading. They named no measure, so we used the reading a typical informed reader would take. It is spelled out under “How we judged it”.
Evidence up to . Checked .
Why
Zitron reports $17.2 billion in OpenAI expenses to Microsoft for calendar 2025, including $6.047 billion in cost of revenue [wyea-exclusive-openai-financials-a0c028-o1]. The search record supplies no primary disclosure or independent verification of these amounts and no comparable evidence contradicting them [wyea-exclusive-openai-financials-a0c028-p1]. The claim remains unresolved on this record [wyea-exclusive-openai-financials-a0c028-p1].
Caveats
- No accessible primary related-party expense disclosure establishes the total or component.
- Reporting that repeats the figures does not independently verify them.
- Cash payments and Microsoft's fiscal-year revenue cannot establish OpenAI's calendar-year expenses.
Evidence (0 items)
Nothing we found settles this yet.
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Observation
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- including $6.047 billion cost of revenue (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- The surrounding paragraph supplies calendar 2025 as the period.
- Expenses means amounts recognized for Microsoft services, without assuming that all were paid in cash during the year.
- The total should round to $17.2 billion at one decimal place; the cost-of-revenue component should round to $6.047 billion at three decimal places.
- The cost-of-revenue component is part of the observation, not a conditional forecast.
- The accounting basis is company_reported because Zitron attributes the amounts to company financial documents.
Right if: Independently verified 2025 disclosures establish approximately $17.2 billion in total expenses to Microsoft, including approximately $6.047 billion classified as cost of revenue.
Wrong if: Comparable disclosures establish that either the total or the cost-of-revenue component differs beyond the stated rounding precision.
We wrote this test after the outcome was known.
What would settle it
An authenticated calendar-2025 related-party expense disclosure, or independent reporting verifying the same figures, showing whether total Microsoft expenses round to $17.2 billion and the included cost-of-revenue component rounds to $6.047 billion.
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Full record
Source and dates
Where's Your Ed At, Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion, paragraph 34.
- Said
- We read the source
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence up to
- Checked
We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2026-06-16.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the posts we read.
: Where's Your Ed At, Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
In total, OpenAI’s expenses to Microsoft amounted to $17.2 billion.
- Where
- paragraph 34
- Published
- 2026-06-16
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Versions
- Current: Unresolved. Evidence up to 2026-10-28.
What happened to this record
PublishedBy us
Published after both AI reviews and the final check passed.
Held backBy us
The final check failed: our summary didn’t match their words.