OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to stable development within the latter half of 2024, in response to a brand new report published on Thursday by VC agency Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Whereas it took ChatGPT 9 months to develop from 100 million weekly lively customers in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, it’s now taken lower than six months for the app to double these numbers but once more, the report discovered.
Shortly after its November 2022 launch as a analysis preview, ChatGPT turned the fastest app ever to reach 100 million month-to-month lively customers — a milestone it hit in solely two months’ time.
By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025.
In accordance with a16z, preliminary shopper demand for ChatGPT was pushed extra by novelty. That’s, shoppers had been concerned with attempting the app however weren’t essentially positive how it could match into their on a regular basis lives.
Nonetheless, ChatGPT’s newer development comes on the heels of the discharge of latest fashions and performance, together with the launch of GPT-4o, which added multimodal capabilities. Shortly after that mannequin’s launch, ChatGPT utilization spiked from April via Might 2024.
Later, after the arrival of Advanced Voice Mode, utilization grew once more from July to August 2024. The o1 model series, led to elevated utilization throughout September to October 2024.
On cellular, ChatGPT’s development has been extra constant, the agency factors out.
Customers of the ChatGPT cellular app have elevated by 5% to fifteen% each month over the previous yr, with 175 million of ChatGPT’s complete 400 million weekly lively customers now accessing the app on cellular gadgets.
The report additionally examines the influence rivals like DeepSeek have had available on the market. The app surged to No. 2 globally in simply 10 days and reached No. 2 on cellular in February, capturing 15% of ChatGPT’s cellular consumer base.
On cellular, DeepSeek customers are even barely extra engaged than Perplexity and Claude customers, in response to information from cellular intelligence supplier Sensor Tower. Nonetheless, it nonetheless lags behind ChatGPT on this entrance.
Different findings within the new market evaluation embrace suggestions of instruments for AI builders and coders, rankings of the highest AI apps by class and income, and rankings of the highest gen AI apps throughout cellular and internet.
On the latter entrance, ChatGPT is available in at No. 1 by distinctive month-to-month visits on the net and month-to-month lively customers on cellular, the report famous, citing information from market intelligence supplier Similarweb.
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