ChatGPT has reached a new milestone. A report by Axios says that the chatbot is receiving over 2.5 Billion requests from users every day.
For reference, ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, and amassed over 100 million users within a couple of months.
When I read the news that it was handling 2.5 Billion prompts, I thought 2.5B prompts per month? That's not a lot, is it? I'm used to reading monthly stats. Then I realized it said PER DAY! That's shocking! Over 76 Billion requests per month, and more than 912.5 Billion per year. OpenAI Spokesperson, Rob Friedlander, told The Verge that the numbers are real. It's still way behind Google, the search giant sees 5 Trillion search requests on an annual basis.
But, Google needs to watch out, the AI service has been exploding in popularity recently. ChatGPT reported that it had 300 million weekly users in December 2024, but the number grew to 500 million in March. ChatGPT's free version has more than 500 million weekly active users. This does put things into perspective, like why Google is stuffing Gemini AI and Microsoft is bundling Copilot everywhere. They want to dominate the market. It's not good for users, but corporations don't care about that, it's all about business.
OpenAI is said to be working on launching an AI-powered browser to rival Chrome. That's not surprising, their executive had told a U.S. Court that OpenAI would jump at the chance to acquire Chrome if Google was forced to sell the browser due to the antitrust case. OpenAI's browser could be released in a few weeks, that seems a lot earlier than anyone would have expected. Perplexity AI launched its AI-powered browser, Comet, recently. Now, OpenAI is probably trying to catch up. Like I said, it's a race.
On a side note, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent last week, a bot that can start and complete tasks on your computer.
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