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Gary Marcus Cites WSJ Numbers Putting OpenAI's Q2 Loss at $12.3B on $6.7B Revenue, With Growth Slowing to 18%
In a 2026-08-19 post titled 'OpenAI's Unraveling Has Begun,' Marcus points at Wall Street Journal reporting that OpenAI's quarterly losses grew $3B from Q1 to Q2 to reach $12.3B, while revenue added only $1B to $6.7B, an 18% growth rate. He ties this to the skeptical reception of Altman's 2026-08-18 frontier RL pause announcement and argues quarterly losses quadrupling is a bad look heading into a planned IPO. Marcus is a committed OpenAI critic and the framing should be discounted accordingly, but the underlying WSJ figures are the load-bearing part and are independently reported.
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