ChatGPT weekly active users are approaching the 1 billion mark: 7 months late, but less than four years since its launch. According to OpenAI’s internal disclosure, the number of weekly active users of its chatbot ChatGPT is about to exceed 1 billion.

ChatGPT’s weekly active users are approaching the 1 billion mark: 7 months late, but less than four years after its launch. According to OpenAI’s internal disclosure, the number of weekly active users of its chatbot ChatGPT is about to exceed 1 billion. This milestone was originally planned to be reached at the end of last year. Although it was seven months later than expected, it has accumulated such a large user base in less than four years since its launch. It is still one of the fastest-growing products in global Internet applications. A company spokesman declined to comment. Seven months late for the milestone, the growth engine is shifting gears. There are multiple factors behind the slowdown in ChatGPT user growth. Google's Gemini is continuing to deeply integrate search engines with billions of users, encroaching on the market from the traffic entrance side; the development process of GPT-5, launched last fall, was full of twists and turns, and was criticized by a large number of users after it went online, which directly dragged down the growth curve. In addition, data from multiple research institutions show that Anthropic’s Claude chatbot has also taken away part of the market share since then. One billion users is certainly a beautiful report card, but the seven-month delay also reveals a reality: ChatGPT’s first-mover dividend is being rapidly diluted, and the AI ​​chatbot market is moving from a single player to a multi-power competition. via AI News (author: AI Base)