Sam Altman says ChatGPT has hit 800M weekly lively customers 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly lively customers, marking a rise of adoption amongst customers, builders, enterprises, and governments.  

ChatGPT’s spectacular development comes as OpenAI is on a race to safe as many AI chips and construct as a lot AI infrastructure as doable. In August, OpenAI mentioned it was on the cusp of reaching 700 million weekly lively customers, already a rise from 500 million weekly lively customers on the finish of March. 

“Right this moment, 4 million builders have constructed with OpenAI,” Altman mentioned. “Greater than 800 folks use ChatGPT each week, and we course of over 6 billion tokens per minute on the API. Because of all of you, AI has gone from one thing folks construct play with to one thing folks construct with on daily basis.”

Altman made the announcement in the course of the keynote presentation for OpenAI’s Dev Day, which additionally included announcement for brand new instruments for constructing apps inside ChatGPT, in addition to setting up extra complicated agentic programs.

“It will allow a brand new technology of apps which might be interactive, adaptive, and personalised, you could chat with,” Altman mentioned. 

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT noticed unprecedented person development virtually instantly, changing into each the preeminent client AI product and one in every of fastest-growing on-line companies ever. Extra lately the device expanded into proactive companies with OpenAI Pulse, sending personalized morning briefs to collaborating customers. The service has additionally been dogged by issues about sycophancy andAI-induced delusions, significantly in the latest case of Allan Brooks, who was misled into believing he’d made a novel mathematical discovery with ChatGPT’s assist.

Nonetheless legally designated as a non-profit, OpenAI turned essentially the most precious privately held firm on the earth on Thursday, after a personal inventory sale of $6.6 billion in shares valued the corporate at $500 billion. The corporate has additionally been launching new merchandise at a blistering tempo, releasing a brand new model of its video-generation device Sora final week, paired with an accompanying social media community. That very same week, the corporate partnered with Stripe to launch a platform for agentic commerce.