No wonder investors were eager to pour money into OpenAI. Along with an announcement made by the company It raised $6.6 billionOpenAI found that “every week, more than 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT to enhance their work, creativity and learning.” That’s a sharp increase since the end of August, when OpenAI’s chatbot said had 200 million weekly users – the number in November of last year is double. As of June, 350 million people were using OpenAI tools every month, according to internal documents it obtained. The New York Times. It’s unclear how many people paid for access compared to those using the free tier.
It is not entirely clear why there has been such a sharp increase in the number of users in just a few months. However, the kids just went back to school and may be using a chatbot cheat do some quick research. OpenAI can probably expect ChatGPT’s user numbers to get another big boost at Apple which eventually feeds it into Apple Intelligencethis will happen in the coming months.
