According to OpenAI, ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly active users. This doubles the weekly audience of 100 million that the company announced last November. API usage has also doubled since July, a company representative told Engadget GPT-4o mini.
User numbers aren’t the only big growth OpenAI has seen in the past year. CEO Sam Altman reported It told employees this summer that the company’s annual revenue — which takes a monthly revenue figure and covers it over the entire year — rose to $3.4 billion from $1.6 billion at the end of 2023.
Separate from today’s user count announcement, The Wall Street Journal informed Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft are in talks to invest in a new fundraising round for OpenAI. The report’s only detail on the scale of this funding round was that it would push OpenAI’s valuation above $100 billion.
Microsoft has invested $13 billion in AI work since 2019, and Apple has announced that ChatGPT will make up a large part of its upcoming work. Apple Intelligence to push Both Microsoft and Apple they gave their seats on OpenAI’s board of directors this summer after the European Commission raised antitrust concerns about the businesses’ close ties.
