ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million

ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly lively customers, in keeping with OpenAI. That represents a doubling of the weekly viewers of 100 million the corporate introduced final November. A consultant from the corporate instructed Engadget that API utilization has additionally doubled because the July launch of GPT-4o mini.

Consumer numbers aren’t the one huge development OpenAI has seen over the previous yr. CEO Sam Altman reportedly instructed staff this summer season that the corporate’s annualized income — which takes a month-to-month income determine and stretches it out over a complete yr — had reached $3.4 billion, up from $1.6 billion on the finish of 2023.

Individually from right this moment’s usercount announcement, The Wall Road Journal reported that Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft are in talks to spend money on a brand new fundraising spherical for OpenAI. The one element the report had in regards to the scale of this funding spherical was that it will push OpenAI’s valuation above $100 billion.

Microsoft has invested $13 billion into the AI enterprise since 2019, whereas Apple revealed that ChatGPT will type a big a part of its upcoming Apple Intelligence push. Each Microsoft and Apple gave up their seats on OpenAI’s board of administrators this summer season after the European Fee raised antitrust considerations in regards to the companies’ shut relationships.