ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users 25
An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, marking an increase of adoption among consumers, developers, enterprises, and governments. ChatGPT's impressive growth comes as OpenAI is on a race to secure as many AI chips and build as much AI infrastructure as possible. In August, OpenAI said it was on the cusp of reaching 700 million weekly active users, already an increase from 500 million weekly active users at the end of March.
"Today, 4 million developers have built with OpenAI," Altman said. "More than 800 people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over 6 billion tokens per minute on the API. Thanks to all of you, AI has gone from something people build play with to something people build with every day." Altman made the announcement during the keynote presentation for OpenAI's Dev Day, which also included announcement for new tools for building apps inside of ChatGPT, as well as constructing more complex agentic systems. "This will enable a new generation of apps that are interactive, adaptive, and personalized, that you can chat with," Altman said.
"Today, 4 million developers have built with OpenAI," Altman said. "More than 800 people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over 6 billion tokens per minute on the API. Thanks to all of you, AI has gone from something people build play with to something people build with every day." Altman made the announcement during the keynote presentation for OpenAI's Dev Day, which also included announcement for new tools for building apps inside of ChatGPT, as well as constructing more complex agentic systems. "This will enable a new generation of apps that are interactive, adaptive, and personalized, that you can chat with," Altman said.
The world cries out.... (Score:3)
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This forum is the last place to be schooling anyone on proper writing.
When it comes to Artificial Intelligence (Score:2)
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Re:When it comes to Artificial Intelligence (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually, LLMs are a necessary component of an reasonable AI program. But they sure aren't the central item. Real AI needs to learn from feedback with it's environment, and to have absolute guides (the equivalent of pain / pleasure sensors).
One could reasonably argue that LLMs are as intelligent as it's possible to get by training on the internet without any links to reality. I've been quite surprised at how good that is, but it sure isn't in good contact with reality.
Define active (Score:2)
I maybe use it once every 2 weeks or so to ask short specific coding questions that I couldn't find the answer to or couldnt be bothered to wade through the hopeless signal to noise ratio on slack overflow to unearth. Does that count as active?
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Sure - you count as 0.5 of a weekly (weakly?) active user.
Of course OpenAI's revenue growth really depends on those weakly active users becoming more active, else ChatGPT revenue would top out at 10x what it is today when everyone on the planet is using it weekly/weakly.
Lie about it till you cry about it! (Score:2)
...and somehow they are all right (Score:2)
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I Wonder... (Score:3)
... how many of those 'weekly active users' are sales bots chatting up the dating bots? They're both so bloody agreeable we could end up with little bitty baby bots.
Do I count among them? (Score:2)
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Color me skeptical (Score:2)
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I worked at a startup a few years ago. They used weasel words in marketing and PR material. The key question is whether these are "unique users". And I guess now with AI agents, whether the user was even human.
Business model? (Score:2)
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That's just about the same amount tariffs are going to bring in. ;-)
How many are paying? (Score:2)
And how many of those 800 million a week (lol lmfao) are paying? Like, 12 or 13 maybe?
So, with all those users (Score:2)
You must be making a big profit, right? Or maybe you have a business plan to monetize those users that will let you pay back your investors and then some? ...? ...?
AI on AI (Score:2)
And how many of those 'users' were competitors AI bots?
It would be crazy to expect one AI isn't being deployed against its competitors.
Never used it (Score:2)