ChatGPT has doubled its weekly lively customers to 200 million

ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly lively customers, based on OpenAI. That represents a doubling of the weekly viewers of 100 million the corporate introduced final November. A consultant from the corporate informed Engadget that API utilization has additionally doubled for the reason that July launch of GPT-4o mini.

Person numbers aren’t the one large development OpenAI has seen over the previous yr. CEO Sam Altman reportedly informed workers this summer time 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 immediately’s usercount announcement, The Wall Road Journal reported that Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft are in talks to put money into a brand new fundraising spherical for OpenAI. The one element the report had concerning 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 time after the European Fee raised antitrust issues concerning the companies’ shut relationships.