ChatGPT records 200m weekly active users

ChatGPT, which was officially launched in 2022, is part of OpenAI’s efforts to create natural-language processing models (NLPs) and is a free-to-use chatbot. 

Earlier this year, OpenAI reported that 92% of Fortune 500 companies are using its products and the use of its automated Application Programming Interface (APIs) has grown significantly.

Just this month, ChatGPT announced releasing the first in its series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before responding; OpenAI o1. It claimed that on a test for safety, measuring how well its model follows its safety rules when a user attempts to bypass these rules, GPT-4o scored 22 out of 100, and the o1 model scored 84.

Alluding to concerns over safety, OpenAI said on the 12th September that it had formalised agreements with the US and UK AI Safety Institutes, with the agreements in the process of being carried out, including granting the institutes access to a research version of the model it announced.

In May of this year, then-UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced 16 companies committed to new voluntary international AI standards - showing that data safety and transparency over how data is used remains a top priority for countries going forward.

Using the chatbot to enquire about how many users are active weekly, it cites Demand Sage’s reporting of ChatGPT statistics - which records 200 million weekly active users as of September 2024, with 77.2 million monthly active users in the US and a forecast of a revenue of $1 billion this year. According to Demand Sage, ChatGPT took 2 months to reach the 100 million mark - a statistic that took Facebook four and a half years to reach.