Sam Altman says ChatGPT has hit 800M weekly energetic customers 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly energetic customers, marking a rise of adoption amongst shoppers, builders, enterprises, and governments.  

ChatGPT’s spectacular development comes as OpenAI is on a race to safe as many AI chips and construct as a lot AI infrastructure as doable. In August, OpenAI mentioned it was on the cusp of reaching 700 million weekly energetic customers, already a rise from 500 million weekly energetic customers on the finish of March. 

“Right now, 4 million builders have constructed with OpenAI,” Altman mentioned. “Greater than 800 million folks use ChatGPT each week, and we course of over 6 billion tokens per minute on the API. Because of all of you, AI has gone from one thing folks play with to one thing folks construct with on daily basis.”

Altman made the announcement throughout the keynote presentation for OpenAI’s Dev Day, which additionally included bulletins for brand new instruments for constructing apps within ChatGPT in addition to setting up extra advanced agentic methods.

“This may allow a brand new era of apps which can be interactive, adaptive, and customized, which you can chat with,” Altman mentioned. 

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT noticed unprecedented person development nearly instantly, changing into each the preeminent client AI product and one of many fastest-growing on-line companies ever. Extra lately the software expanded into proactive companies with OpenAI Pulse, sending personalized morning briefs to collaborating customers. The service has additionally been dogged by issues about sycophancy and AI-induced delusions, significantly within the latest case of Allan Brooks, who was misled into believing he’d made a novel mathematical discovery with ChatGPT’s assist.

Nonetheless legally designated as a nonprofit, OpenAI grew to become probably the most invaluable privately held firm on this planet on Thursday, after a non-public inventory sale of $6.6 billion in shares valued the corporate at $500 billion. The corporate has additionally been launching new merchandise at a blistering tempo, releasing a brand new model of its video-generation software Sora final week, paired with an accompanying social media community. That very same week, the corporate partnered with Stripe to launch a platform for agentic commerce.