In December, during the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman noted that ChatGPT was handling over 1 billion queries daily. Since then, the platform’s prompt volume has more than doubled.
The vast majority of users rely on the free version of ChatGPT. According to OpenAI, the platform now has more than 500 million weekly active users. This is a sharp rise from 300 million in December to over 500 million by March.
In May, Altman revealed that daily active users had more than quadrupled over the past year. A month earlier, during a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, Altman said that around 10% of the world uses ChatGPT.
OpenAI also appears to be broadening its ambitions. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the company is preparing to launch an AI-powered web browser that would directly compete with Google Chrome. This follows the recent release of ChatGPT Agent, a new tool that can perform tasks on users’ computers autonomously.
