{"id":48583,"date":"2026-04-02T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openais-cfo-says-the-company-is-passing-on-opportunities-because-it-does-not-have-enough-compute\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:41:17","slug":"openais-cfo-says-the-company-is-passing-on-opportunities-because-it-does-not-have-enough-compute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openais-cfo-says-the-company-is-passing-on-opportunities-because-it-does-not-have-enough-compute\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s CFO says the company is passing on opportunities because it does not have enough compute"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69ce3386c02a678bd7e473d4?format=jpeg\" alt=\"OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, in September 2025.\"\/><figcaption>OpenAI&#039;s CFO, Sarah Friar, says a compute shortage is forcing the company to pass up opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>OpenAI&#039;s CFO says the company is skipping opportunities due to limited compute in 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Friar says OpenAI is making &quot;tough trades&quot; as AI demand outpaces available capacity.<\/li>\n<li>OpenAI has pulled back from projects like Sora as it shifts resources to core AI products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenAI is turning down some opportunities this year because it doesn&#039;t have enough computing power to support them, according to its CFO Sarah Friar.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;re making some very tough trades at the moment and things we&#039;re not pursuing because we don&#039;t have enough compute,&quot; Friar told ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood in an interview released this week.<\/p>\n<p>Friar said the issue is particularly acute in 2026, as demand for AI continues to surge globally.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Today, I do spend a lot of time trying to find any last-minute compute available here in 2026,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI President Greg Brockman echoed that pressure in an interview on the &quot;Big Technology Podcast&quot; released Wednesday, saying the company has struggled to keep up with demand.<\/p>\n<p>Their comments highlight a growing constraint across the AI industry: even the most advanced companies are being limited by access to the computing power needed to train and run models.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you do not have it [compute], you do not have revenue. That is one thing I know for sure,&quot; Friar said.<\/p>\n<h2>Compute limits force trade-offs<\/h2>\n<p>The shortage is forcing OpenAI to make strategic trade-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Brockman said the company is prioritizing a small number of core use cases, including a personal AI assistant and tools that can solve complex tasks, because it &quot;can&#039;t possibly get to all of them&quot; given current compute limits.<\/p>\n<p>That dynamic is already shaping product decisions. OpenAI has pulled back from some initiatives \u2014 including discontinuing its video app Sora \u2014 as it focuses resources on core, revenue-generating AI products.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which now serves around 900 million consumers and more than 1 million businesses, Friar said, is raising huge sums. It recently completed a $122 billion funding round, in part to secure future compute capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We cannot build compute fast enough to keep up with demand,&quot; Brockman said, describing what he called &quot;very painful decisions&quot; about what to launch and where to allocate resources.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI is making &quot;multi-year commitments&quot; to secure future capacity, Friar said.<\/p>\n<p>Other AI companies appear to be facing similar constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic recently tightened usage caps for its Claude model during peak hours, a sign that even leading model makers are struggling to keep up with surging demand.<\/p>\n<p>For now, a basic constraint remains: even in the age of AI, you can&#039;t scale without the hardware behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI&#039;s CFO, Sarah Friar, says a compute shortage is forcing the company to pass up opportunities. Bloomberg\/Getty Images OpenAI&#039;s CFO says the company is skipping opportunities due to limited compute in 2026. Friar says OpenAI is making &quot;tough trades&quot; as AI demand outpaces available capacity. 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