OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, revealed that ChatGPT is now used by 100 million people weekly. The company also announced that it has attracted over two million developers, with over 92 per cent of Fortune 500 companies among them, since launching its ChatGPT and Whisper models through an API in March.
OpenAI introduced these numbers at its inaugural developer conference, along with new features like a platform for creating customized versions of ChatGPT for specific tasks and GPT-4 Turbo, a model with knowledge of world events up to April 2023 that can handle over 300 pages of text in a single prompt.
ChatGPT achieved rapid growth, becoming one of the fastest-growing consumer internet apps with around 100 million monthly users within two months of its launch. For context, Facebook took over four years to reach 100 million users, Twitter over five years, and Instagram a little over two years.
Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which incorporated generative AI features from OpenAI’s GPT-4, reached 100 million daily active users a decade after its 2009 launch. While Meta’s Threads briefly surpassed ChatGPT’s record by reaching 100 million users in under a week after its July launch, it has seen a decline in users since then, with fewer than 100 million monthly active users in October.
Despite the competition, ChatGPT remains highly popular, and it hasn’t even been publicly available for a full year. OpenAI shared these figures in response to reports suggesting a decrease in ChatGPT’s popularity since its release in November of the previous year.
