ChatGPT has doubled its weekly lively customers to 200 million

ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly lively customers, in line with 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 because the July launch of GPT-4o mini.

Consumer numbers aren’t the one massive development OpenAI has seen over the previous 12 months. 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 an entire 12 months — 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 Avenue 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 might push OpenAI’s valuation above $100 billion.

Microsoft has invested $13 billion into the AI enterprise since 2019, whereas Apple revealed that ChatGPT will kind 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 in regards to the companies’ shut relationships.