ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/1848254/chatgpt-now-has-800-million-weekly-active-users
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> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that ChatGPT has [1]reached 800 million weekly active users , marking an increase of adoption among consumers, developers, enterprises, and governments. ChatGPT's impressive growth comes as OpenAI is on a race to secure as many AI chips and build as much AI infrastructure as possible. In August, OpenAI said it was on the cusp of [2]reaching 700 million weekly active users , already an increase from 500 million weekly active users at the end of March.
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> "Today, 4 million developers have built with OpenAI," Altman said. "More than 800 people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over 6 billion tokens per minute on the API. Thanks to all of you, AI has gone from something people build play with to something people build with every day." Altman made the announcement during the keynote presentation for OpenAI's Dev Day, which also included announcement for new tools for building apps inside of ChatGPT, as well as constructing more complex agentic systems. "This will enable a new generation of apps that are interactive, adaptive, and personalized, that you can chat with," Altman said.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-has-hit-800m-weekly-active-users/
[2] https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/200209/chatgpt-nears-700-million-weekly-users-up-4x-from-last-year
When it comes to Artificial Intelligence (Score:2)
LLM's are a dead end, now if you want to talk about automation that is a different story.
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Let's hope this variation of the exact same post of yours manages to get even more posts than your last one.
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Actually, LLMs are a necessary component of an reasonable AI program. But they sure aren't the central item. Real AI needs to learn from feedback with it's environment, and to have absolute guides (the equivalent of pain / pleasure sensors).
One could reasonably argue that LLMs are as intelligent as it's possible to get by training on the internet without any links to reality. I've been quite surprised at how good that is, but it sure isn't in good contact with reality.
Define active (Score:2)
I maybe use it once every 2 weeks or so to ask short specific coding questions that I couldn't find the answer to or couldnt be bothered to wade through the hopeless signal to noise ratio on slack overflow to unearth. Does that count as active?
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Sure - you count as 0.5 of a weekly (weakly?) active user.
Of course OpenAI's revenue growth really depends on those weakly active users becoming more active, else ChatGPT revenue would top out at 10x what it is today when everyone on the planet is using it weekly/weakly.
Lie about it till you cry about it! (Score:2)
Like they say: fake it till you make it! And then continue faking it, for the service you have chosen to provide is lying.
...and somehow they are all right (Score:2)
The "AI" is some kinda almost always agreeable ass kissing sycophants giving people a false senses of security and sometimes false information.
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You shut your mouth... it gets me! It sees how insightful I am!
I Wonder... (Score:3)
... how many of those 'weekly active users' are sales bots chatting up the dating bots? They're both so bloody agreeable we could end up with little bitty baby bots.
Do I count among them? (Score:2)
I've been trying to get through the useless IKEA chat bot to find out where the hell my refund money is. Or is this more about all the AI summaries I scroll past?
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If you shop online and that dumb 'need help chat bubble' pops up they probably consider that 'use'. So far they still have that button to hide it, one day that will be the only interaction to search for products making you an unwilling victim of AI.
Color me skeptical (Score:2)
There are around 8B people in the world. 1 in 10, every week, I don't think so. Maybe if the count the person using it 5 days/week 5x maybe. Most people I know look for ways to avoid AI. I know I setup my google search so that it always adds the magic to the query to skip the AI summary at the top.
Business model? (Score:2)
OpenAI has been projected to lose $44 billion by 2029. So imagine how enshittified the service is going to become when they exit the "growth at all costs" part of the startup phase.
How many are paying? (Score:2)
And how many of those 800 million a week (lol lmfao) are paying? Like, 12 or 13 maybe?
The world cries out.... (Score:3)
For the loss of basic writing skills.