According to BlockBeats, OpenAI is at risk of losing $5 billion this year. Internal financial documents show that the cost of AI model training is $7 billion and the labor cost is $1.5 billion, far exceeding the expenditure of competitors.

Information estimates that OpenAI needs to complete a new round of financing within the next 12 months, otherwise it may run out of cash. Tracxn data shows that OpenAI has completed 7 rounds of financing and raised more than $11.3 billion.

Last week, Information reported that after negotiations with TSMC, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman decided to abandon building its own wafer fab and instead entrust TSMC to produce AI chips and establish a joint venture company focused on chip design.