ChatGPT's monthly active users have skyrocketed since the AI bot was unveiled, with the latest figures hitting a truly impressive milestone.
Researchers from OpenAI, Duke University, and Harvard University said in a paper published last month that ChatGPT's 700 million monthly users in July comprised around 10% of the world's adult population.
That monthly number is probably considerably higher now. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman said at the company's annual DevDay event on Monday that the AI chatbot now boasts 800 million users per week.
ChatGPT was processing more than 2.5 billion messages a day as of July, the paper said, or around 29,000 queries per second.
"For a new technology, this speed of global diffusion has no precedent," the researchers wrote.
ChatGPT's rapid growth is a testament to its dominance in the AI and LLM space. Its weekly active user base has grown 700% since November 2023, when Altman said the platform had 100 million active users at the company's first-ever developers' conference.
The platform's user base also dwarfs that of other LLM chatbots. xAI's Grok, for instance, has 65 million active monthly users. Anthropic's Claude and Perplexity AI each have 30 million active monthly users.
