ChatGPT surpassed 400,000,000 weekly active users. “We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week,” OPENAI CEO Brad Lightcap””elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1″ ” Data-Ylk=””slk:said;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”” href=””https://x.com/bradlightcap/status/1892579908179882057″ ” rel=””nofollow noopener” ” target=””_blank” “> toldon X that the new audience stat was double what it was in August 2024. This figure is double the weekly active users reported by the company in August 2024 and was also twice as high in November 2023.
This latest milestone for AI assistant comes after an uproar about new rival platform DeepSeek earlier in the year. It raised questions about whether or not the current crop leading AI tools were about to be dethroned. OpenAI is about to simplify its ChatGPT offering so that users don’t have select which reasoning model responds to an input. It will also make its GPT-5 and GPT-4.5 models available in the API and chat clients soon. ChatGPT is poised to grow its audience in the coming months, now that GPT-5 is available to OpenAI users.
