Did you know OpenAI's ChatGPT Surpasses 400M Weekly Users, Doubling Growth Amid Rising AI Competition

 

It looks like OpenAI is unstoppable as the company recently shared another mega milestone that it’s so proud of.

OpenAI's ChatGPT exceeded 400 million weekly active users in February, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday, reflecting AI's growing adoption.

The software giant recorded a whopping 300 million weekly active users in December of 2024. But that’s not all. The company’s business tier users also crossed the two million figure in February. This means it nearly doubled in stats than what we saw in September which is when the latest update arrived.

The greater number of figures comes just a few weeks after we saw Chinese startup giant DeepSeek launch its AI model. The company shared more on this front including how it might end up outperforming rivals in the West at a minimal cost while still offering the best performance features. That led to a stirrup in the AI space where America continues to dominate.

But that massive success is slowly dwindling now. Many are pointing fingers at questionable behavior including possible bans due to privacy leaks in the small startup. There are also a lot of doubts in terms of how the company was able to attain Nvidia’s H800 chips. These are used for training AI models, even though there’s a current ban on exports in the US for all Chinese goods.

The makers of ChatGPT shared the whopping twofold rise in developer traffic for the reasoning models over the last six months. There was similarly a fivefold rise for the o3 model since the launch that took place in late January. The figures were confirmed similarly by CNBC.

This is proof of the fact that 2025 is not being taken slow by the tech giant and despite competition springing up in all directions, OpenAI has its eyes set on the prize.