OpenAI continues to lead the AI chatbot market. The company reported incredible growth in the ChatGPT audience. In two months, the number of users grew by 50 million, reaching 250 million.
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Despite the fact that today there are such powerful AI tools on the market as Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity and others, ChatGPT is becoming a household name for the entire variety of chatbots. When people talk about asking a chatbot to do something, they say “ask ChatGPT,” which is comparable to the expression “Google,” which has long been synonymous with searching for information on the Internet.
According to Android Headlines, every week more than 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT for various purposes. However, it’s not just the numbers that are impressive, but also the speed with which this figure is growing. If in August ChatGPT was used by 200 million people, then in less than two months the weekly audience grew by 50 million users.
It is believed that this jump is due to the start of the new school year. It is possible that schoolchildren and students turn to ChatGPT for “help” with homework. If this is true, then it is unlikely that their performance will improve in the long term.
Overall, the success of ChatGPT shows that, despite a fairly large selection of chatbots on the market, the OpenAI product still remains the number one AI assistant for most users, despite strong competitors such as Microsoft, Google and Meta✴. However, although Microsoft uses OpenAI models, it offers users its own unique AI product, Copilot.