“We’ve been very clear this year that we want to go public when we feel is the right time for us, and I feel extremely good about the business. OpenAI’s growth accelerated in the third quarter, with annualized revenue climbing 70% from the previous quarter.
Brockman said a doubling of the company’s enterprise business drove the surge. Enterprise customers now generate the bulk of OpenAI’s revenue.
That’s a significant shift from earlier periods when the segment represented just 30% of sales. Read Also: OpenAI Adds Another Big Name As Uber Loses Longtime Executive Brockman emphasized that OpenAI’s consumer business continues to expand, but enterprise sales have grown much faster.
He also discussed how OpenAI’s approach to enterprise customers has evolved. A year ago, OpenAI was still a consumer-focused company and potential enterprise clients questioned whether it was serious about serving businesses.
Brockman also described 2026 as a year of significant change for OpenAI’s enterprise business, acknowledging that the first half of the year was particularly challenging. Although OpenAI already had its own offering, Codex, Brockman said it received little attention at the time.
Rather than getting distracted by the competition, he said the company focused on improving the product and executing its strategy. Read Also: OpenAI Just Bought Another AI Coding Startup.
