OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday said the artificial intelligence company should prioritize growth and its investments in training and compute "for a long time," even if it delays its path to profitability.

Last year, OpenAI expected about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue. OpenAI's annual recurring revenue is now on track to pass $20 billion this year, but the company is still losing money.

"As long as we're on this very distinct curve of the model getting better and better, I think the rational thing to do is to just be willing to run the loss for quite a while," Altman told CNBC's " Squawk Box " in an interview Friday following the release of GPT-5 .

GPT-5 is the company's latest and most advanced large-scale AI model and was released on Thursday.

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