OpenAI just dropped the top 30 customers who've used 1T+ of their tokens.
Note, it's just sorted by last name, not rank.
Also, the matching between name listed and company is best-effort so there is some room for error. Correction: Mahesh Kumar is from Uber, not Tiger Analytics (can't edit), thanks @ankittandon1
@deedydas it's a flex. how do i get on this list? asking for a friend
@DanAdvantage Step 1. Use 1 trillion GPT tokens
@deedydas Interesting privacy policy
@TomZschach I'm sure they checked with the people they were losing and omitted the names who didn't want to be listed!
@deedydas This is going to turn into the AI d**k measuring contest of who is ai'ing harder isn't it?
@deedydas I wonder if they got users permission to publicly disclose this? Number 28 - Perplexity CTO & Cofounder - isn't that awkward 😆
@deedydas Tbh, this list is actually terrifying from a competition perspective. If your startup's on here, you've just told every competitor exactly how dependent you are on OpenAI pricing and availability. It's like publishing "here's who would be most hurt if OpenAI raised prices
@deedydas I can't even comprehend what 1T tokens looks like. What I can see, though, is a list of companies that are now very, very dependent on a single provider. This makes you wonder what kind of privacy and price agreements they have in place.
@deedydas So a list of people who oversee GPT wrappers
@deedydas cursor missing from this list?
@deedydas Try to even comprehend what 1T+ tokens even is. Also, no way this is accounting for third party usage like Cursor, etc.
@deedydas Interesting mix of big tech and startups here. How do you see this changing everyday apps in the next year?
@deedydas All these 20 people are soon going to be on top of hiring/poaching/M&A lists … Congratulations to them - building in silence pays off 😅😊
@deedydas Back when I was at Oracle, they tracked a list of highest expense account spenders every quarter. If you got on that list, you’d get a call from Larry’s office. After that you never wanted to be on that list again. I bet a lot of folks on this list feel the same way today.
@deedydas So the take-away-message is you have to consume 1T+ token to become a CEO or CTO.
@deedydas Using a trillion tokens in an SF bar probably feels so good.
@deedydas Interesting to see that existing SaaS companies top users. General narrative is that SaaS will be killed by AI but I believe that SaaS will enhance its value by powering it with AI.
@deedydas Lol, thats me there
@deedydas These companies are not building new capabilities. They are collapsing labor into inference replacing human processes with synthetic cognition at scale.
@deedydas I made a database of their companies, products, and social profiles: http://geyser-80.faces.site/to...
@deedydas This is incredibly smart Those F500 people will rightly use it as proof of expertise in talks Others will try to climb the leaderboard for bragging rights
@deedydas I hope Xhamster never publishes its top 30 customers!
@deedydas Impressive numbers. A chunk of that OpenRouter figure was me...
@deedydas imagine trusting them with sensitive data when they’re out here publishing customer lists like this 😬
@deedydas For anyone looking to find out what each company does: https://x.com/taufiqintech/sta...
@deedydas Why is this public information??
@deedydas I love t-mobile being up there that’s awesome but what the h ell are they doing
@deedydas funny part is if your company wasn't allowed to use OpenAI and your boss wants to know why the hell you are on this list and what you do all day ...