“Similarly, for the first half of CY2025, Microsoft received $454.7 million as part of its revenue share agreement, implying OpenAI’s revenues for that six-month period were at least $2.273 billion, or around $2 billion less than the $4.3 billion previously reported.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Microsoft's $454.7M revenue share in H1 2025 implies OpenAI revenue of at least $2.273B, about $2B below the reported $4.3B.
Assessment: Unresolved Evidence as of
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft, paragraph 24.
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- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- per documents viewed (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- first half of CY2025
- Microsoft received $454.7 million
- that six-month period
- at least $2.273 billion
- around $2 billion less than the $4.3 billion previously reported
Our interpretation
- Assess January through June 2025 payments, the revenue floor derived using the contextual 20% share, and the comparison with earlier reporting together.
- Treat 'at least' as a lower bound, not an estimate of total revenue or a ceiling.
- The attribution to documents identifies a source rather than a forecast condition.
- Use estimate for the accounting basis because the figures are journalist-reported from nonpublic records. Gross versus net treatment is unspecified.
Counts as supported if: Independent records establish $454.7 million of revenue share for January–June 2025, with agreement and accounting details supporting the stated revenue floor. Earlier reporting establishes the $4.3 billion comparison.
Counts as contradicted if: Comparable records establish a materially different payment total or show that the applicable rate, offsets, or timing invalidate the floor. Revenue exceeding the floor is not a contradiction.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
The record was checked, and the evidence available by the cutoff does not settle it.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Earlier reporting contains the $4.3 billion comparison, and the conditional arithmetic gives approximately the stated floor and difference. The searches did not independently establish Microsoft's $454.7 million total or its accounting treatment. A reported revenue total above the claimed minimum would not disprove that minimum. The complete claim remains unresolved.
Limitations
- The payment figure's accessible reporting traces back to Zitron.
- Reuters did not independently verify the shareholder-disclosure report.
- Small rounding differences do not settle the substantive claim.
Evidence (1 item)
Context only: Reuters, syndicated by Yahoo,
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
Why it matters here: The article relays The Information's $4.3 billion H1 revenue figure with an explicit verification limitation. It establishes the comparison's reporting history, not Microsoft's payment receipts.
- Publisher
- Reuters, syndicated by Yahoo
- Kind of source
- News report
- Measures
- OpenAI, Reported first-half revenue, USD billions, estimate, 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-30
- Arithmetic
- 454.7 / 0.20 = 2273.5 million; 4.3 - 2.2735 = 2.0265 billion. (inputs: Claim-stated payment: $454.7 million, independently unverified.; Claim-context revenue-share rate: 20%, agreement not obtained.; Reported H1 2025 revenue: approximately $4.3 billion.; The claim's $2.273 billion floor is $0.5 million below the quotient. The comparison is approximately $2 billion. Neither calculation verifies its payment input.)
- Describes events of
- Public from
What would settle it
H1 2025 revenue-share records and the applicable agreement, reconciled to offsets, settlement timing, and OpenAI's corresponding revenue disclosures.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Where's Your Ed At, Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
Similarly, for the first half of CY2025, Microsoft received $454.7 million as part of its revenue share agreement, implying OpenAI’s revenues for that six-month period were at least $2.273 billion, or around $2 billion less than the $4.3 billion previously reported.
- Where
- paragraph 24
- Published
- 2025-11-12
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-oai-docs-ff1918-a1: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.