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ChatGPT Has Almost 1 Billion Weekly Users, OpenAI Says

That's up from 700 million users in September last year and more than doubled from where it was last year.

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ChatGPT is nearing 1 billion weekly users.

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Artificial intelligence company OpenAI reports that ChatGPT, its AI chatbot, has more than 900 million weekly active users, up from 700 million in September. The company also says the service now has more than 50 million consumer subscribers. 

The number of weekly ChatGPT users has more than doubled since February 2025, when it had 400 million users, and the current 9 million business subscribers is a fourfold increase from September. In comparison, competitor Anthropic says its free Claude users have increased by 60% since January, and its paid subscribers have doubled, though it didn't provide numbers. 

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)

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In addition, OpenAI announced a scaled-back investment from Nvidia of $30 billion, down from the $100 billion initially touted, while SoftBank will now contribute $30 billion and Amazon $50 billion. 

In January, ChatGPT added a new $8 Go Subscription level, which includes ads, prompting Anthropic's Super Bowl ad to make fun of this by "pinky promising" not to do the same.

ChatGPT is the most popular chatbot and, with the latest rounds of investment, its parent company, OpenAI, is now valued at $730 billion, it says.

The chatbot's growth shows just how deeply generative AI has penetrated global digital life, making it one of the fastest-adopted technologies in history. ChatGPT has significantly outpaced rivals like Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude. Such rapid growth has fueled excitement about AI's potential but also sparked debates over responsible use, including concerns about AI hallucinations.