{"id":1218144,"date":"2025-02-20T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218144"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:36:35","slug":"chatgpt-reaches-400m-weekly-active-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218144","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly active users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users. &#8220;We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week,&#8221; OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bradlightcap\/status\/1892579908179882057\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bradlightcap\/status\/1892579908179882057\"><ins>said<\/ins><\/a> on X about the new audience stat. This figure is twice the weekly active user count reported by the company in <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/chatgpt-has-doubled-its-weekly-active-users-to-200-million-233037951.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/chatgpt-has-doubled-its-weekly-active-users-to-200-million-233037951.html\"><ins>August 2024<\/ins><\/a>, which was double the figure it posted in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a huge uproar over new rival platform <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/chinas-deepseek-ai-assistant-becomes-top-free-iphone-app-as-us-tech-stocks-take-a-hit-134445151.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/chinas-deepseek-ai-assistant-becomes-top-free-iphone-app-as-us-tech-stocks-take-a-hit-134445151.html\"><ins>DeepSeek<\/ins><\/a> earlier in the year, which raised questions about whether the current crop of leading AI tools was about to be dethroned. OpenAI is on the verge of a move to <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/openai-will-offer-free-chatgpt-users-unlimited-access-to-gpt-5-211935734.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/openai-will-offer-free-chatgpt-users-unlimited-access-to-gpt-5-211935734.html\">simplify<\/a> its ChatGPT offerings so that users won&#8217;t have to select which reasoning model will respond to an input, and it will make its GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 models available soon in the chat and API clients. With GPT-5 being made available to OpenAI&#8217;s free users, ChatGPT seems primed to continue expanding its audience base in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/chatgpt-reaches-400m-weekly-active-users-203635884.html?src=rss<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users. &#8220;We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week,&#8221; OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X about the new audience stat. This figure is twice the weekly active &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}