{"id":16730,"date":"2025-07-23T00:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16730\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:35:12","slug":"google-should-be-worried-chatgpt-users-now-send-2-5-billion-prompts-a-day-heres-how-that-compares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16730\/","title":{"rendered":"Google should be worried \u2013 ChatGPT users now send 2.5 billion prompts a day, here\u2019s how that compares"},"content":{"rendered":"

ChatGPT is now fielding 2.5 billion prompts a dayIn comparison, Google gets 14 billion daily searchesPeople are increasingly turning to AI instead of search engines<\/p>\n

If you use ChatGPT<\/a> on a daily basis, you\u2019re certainly not alone. According to Axios<\/a>, ChatGPT users now send more than 2.5 billion prompts a day to the artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> chatbot<\/a>, showing how incredibly popular it has become over the last few years. Of those numbers, 330 million daily prompts are thought to come from users based in the US, Axios reports.<\/p>\n

Although we don\u2019t know whether ChatGPT is actively searching the internet<\/a> for answers in response to those prompts (or instead relying on its training data), the figure could be worrying reading for search giant Google. That\u2019s because people are increasingly turning away from Google<\/a> and heading to the best AI tools<\/a> for answers to their queries.<\/p>\n

Google, by comparison, doesn\u2019t share its daily search figures, but its parent company Alphabet recently revealed that the search engine gets roughly five trillion queries per year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That translates to about 14 billion daily searches \u2013 still some way ahead of ChatGPT, but perhaps not unassailably so.<\/p>\n

Rapid growth<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s all the more impressive about ChatGPT\u2019s search figures is the rapid growth it’s undergone since December 2024.<\/p>\n

Back then, Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI<\/a>, said that the platform received about one billion prompts a day<\/a>. That means it\u2019s more than doubled its usage in around eight months.<\/p>\n

The question remains, though, whether ChatGPT\u2019s current model is economically sustainable for OpenAI. The report from Axios highlights that the \u201cvast majority of the platform’s more than 500 million weekly active users\u201d are using the free version of ChatGPT<\/a>, meaning OpenAI is only generating income from a small subset of users.<\/p>\n

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And given there are claims that even the paid edition of ChatGPT is struggling to make money, securing so many daily searches might not be enough for OpenAI in the long run \u2013 at least in its current format.<\/p>\n

Still, there\u2019s no doubt that the company has undergone rapid expansion even in just the last year, as the daily prompt numbers attest. With Google looking nervously over its shoulder, search engines might soon look very different.<\/p>\n

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