# OpenAI Finally Admits: Research Was Expensive, Enterprise Pays

- slug: openai-finally-admits-research-was-expensive-enterprise-pays
- date: 2026-03-26
- category: Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is running out of runway to be a research lab.

The company that spent 2025 launching Sora, the Atlas web browser, an adult ChatGPT mode, and a chip still in the design and tape-out stage — while burning through an estimated tens of billions of dollars — is now doubling its workforce to 8,...

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