{"id":59405,"date":"2025-08-05T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59405\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:18:11","slug":"openai-adds-200-million-weekly-users-in-4-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59405\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Adds 200 Million Weekly Users in 4 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence startup\u00a0OpenAI<\/a>\u00a0says it is on the verge of a new user-base milestone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly active users \u2014 up from 500M at the end of March and 4\u00d7 since last year,\u201d\u00a0Nick Turley<\/a>, the company\u2019s head of product, wrote in a\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0on X Monday (Aug. 4).<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems. Big week ahead. Grateful to the team for making ChatGPT more useful and delivering on our mission so everyone can benefit from AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news comes as OpenAI is set to\u00a0debut its GPT-5 model<\/a>. According to published reports last month, this model will incorporate distinct AI models to perform different functions, as well as OpenAI\u2019s o3 model and other technologies.<\/p>\n

This follows CEO Sam Altman\u2019s statement in February that the company is working to simplify its offerings by unifying its o-series models and GPT-series models, thus creating systems that can use all the company\u2019s tools and be useful for a range of tasks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want\u00a0AI to \u2018just work\u2019 for you<\/a>; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten,\u201d Altman wrote. \u201cWe hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, OpenAI was\u00a0valued at $300 billion<\/a>\u00a0after concluding its latest round of fundraising, which was five times oversubscribed.<\/p>\n

The startup snagged $8.3 billion months earlier than expected, per a report from The New York Times\u2019 DealBook. The funding is part of the company\u2019s effort to secure $40 billion in funding this year, to which\u00a0SoftBank<\/a>\u00a0has pledged $30 billion.<\/p>\n

The biggest investor was\u00a0Dragoneer Investment Group<\/a>, at $2.8 billion. DealBook called it an \u201castonishing check\u201d from a single venture fund that \u201cmay be one of the largest ever written.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, new research from PYMNTS Intelligence shows\u00a0growing optimism<\/a>\u00a0about generative AI among chief product officers, particularly in the tech sector. That\u2019s a factor likely driven in part by a stronger familiarity with AI tools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis divergence matters. Tech firms moving to operationalize gen AI are better positioned to shape internal standards, influence vendor priorities and define early benchmarks for success\u2014all outcomes that can fuel widespread adoption across other industries,\u201d PYMNTS wrote. \u201cBy contrast, sectors still weighing trade-offs may forgo speed in exchange for certainty, but they risk falling behind as gen AI tools evolve at lightning speed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence startup\u00a0OpenAI\u00a0says it is on the verge of a new user-base milestone. \u201cThis week, ChatGPT is on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,4320,3195,3802,3,1283,3300,74,3301],"class_list":["post-59405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chatbots","tag-chatgpt","tag-editors-picks","tag-news","tag-openai","tag-pymnts-news","tag-technology","tag-whats-hot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}