On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that ChatGPT now boasts 800 million weekly active users, reflecting its growing popularity among individuals, developers, businesses, and government organizations.
The rapid expansion of ChatGPT coincides with OpenAI’s ongoing efforts to acquire more AI chips and strengthen its AI infrastructure. Back in August, the company announced it was nearing 700 million weekly users, up from 500 million at the end of March.
“Currently, 4 million developers are building with OpenAI,” Altman shared. “Over 800 million people use ChatGPT each week, and our API processes more than 6 billion tokens every minute. Because of your support, AI has shifted from being a tool for experimentation to something people rely on daily.”
Altman delivered these remarks during the keynote at OpenAI’s Dev Day, where he also introduced new features for creating applications within ChatGPT and for developing more advanced agentic systems.
“This paves the way for a new wave of applications that are interactive, adaptive, and tailored to users, allowing for conversational experiences,” Altman explained.
Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has experienced extraordinary growth, quickly becoming a leading consumer AI product and one of the fastest-growing online platforms in history. Recently, it expanded into proactive offerings with OpenAI Pulse, which delivers personalized morning updates to users. However, the service has faced criticism regarding issues like sycophancy and AI-generated misinformation, as seen in the recent incident involving Allan Brooks, who was mistakenly convinced he had made a new mathematical breakthrough with ChatGPT’s assistance.
Although OpenAI is still officially classified as a non-profit, it became the world’s most valuable private company last Thursday after a $6.6 billion private share sale pushed its valuation to $500 billion. The company continues to roll out new products rapidly, including the latest version of its video creation tool Sora and a new social media platform. That same week, OpenAI also teamed up with Stripe to introduce a platform for agentic commerce.