ChatGPT approaches 1 billion weekly active users: a milestone seven months late, and an undercurrent of three-stream diversion. Figures leaked from OpenAI’s internal sources show that ChatGPT’s weekly active users are approaching the 1 billion threshold.

ChatGPT approaches 1 billion weekly active users: a milestone that is seven months late, and an undercurrent of three-stream diversion. Figures leaked from OpenAI show that ChatGPT’s weekly active users are approaching the 1 billion threshold. This milestone was originally set by the company to be reached at the end of last year, but now it is seven months later than expected and the end point is finally in sight. Even though it was late, the size was still amazing. Less than four years after ChatGPT was launched, it has already gathered such a large number of users. Even if it is not ranked first in growth rate, it is still firmly in the fastest growing echelon in the history of Internet applications. Regarding this figure, the company spokesperson chose to remain silent and declined to comment. Under the halo, the slowdown in growth can no longer be hidden. Three undercurrents are diverting ChatGPT’s traffic at the same time. The first share came from Google. Gemini is being continuously and deeply embedded into the web search engine with billions of users. The default intelligence behind each search box is quietly removing habits. The second wave comes from the launch of GPT-5 last fall - the development process of that model was full of twists and turns, and it was criticized by a large number of users after its release. The growth curve of weekly active users obviously turned a corner after that. The third stock is Claude from Anthropic. Data from multiple research institutions point to the same conclusion: Since the GPT-5 crisis, Claude has taken away a share of the chat robot market. When a product approaches 1 billion weekly actives, it is no longer faced with the question of "can it grow up?" but the question of "how to keep it when it grows up?" The undercurrent of three diverging streams reminds that the chat robot table is moving from a dominant player to a group of players. via AI News (author: AI Base)