OpenAI’s flagship product ChatGPT has hit a new milestone of 800 million weekly users. The feat was announced by the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, who revealed the updated metrics during OpenAI’s third annual DevDay, which is taking place at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
During the event, Altman noted the new metrics and said, “More than 800 people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over 8 billion tokens per minute on the API.” He also added that over 4 million developers have been using the application to code and build apps. The founder revealed the names of the most active developers alongside the number of tokens they have processed. Some developers processed about one trillion tokens using the API of ChatGPT.
ChatGPT hits new milestone as OpenAI reveals new deals and tools
Sam Altman also thanked the crowd for their presence at the annual event. “AI has gone from something people build and play with to something people build with every day,” he added. In late March, OpenAI mentioned that ChatGPT only had about 500 million weekly users. By August, the numbers increased, climbing to 700 million users. The new metric shows an impressive jump of 60% in the past six months.
During OpenAI’s DevDay, the company revealed lots of new announcements, new AI tools, and demos. The event was streamed on YouTube and recorded over 114k views in one hour. As previously reported by Cryptopolitan, OpenAI signed a deal with AMD to deploy 6 gigawatts of the company’s Instinct GPUs by 2025. The deal also grants OpenAI the right to acquire up to 10% of AMD via stock warrants.
Sam Altman took to blogging platform X to express his excitement about the deal, saying, “Excited to partner with AMD to use their chips to serve our users! … The world needs much more compute.” ChatGPT launched over two years ago and ballooned fast. It became one of the most popular artificial intelligence products ever.
OpenAI later added Pulse, which sends users custom morning briefs. The tool drew criticism for sycophancy and AI-induced delusions. In one case, a user named Allan Brooks was misled into thinking he made a new math discovery with ChatGPT’s help.
OpenAI is still legally nonprofit-controlled. It became the most valuable private company after a $6.6 billion stock sale, valued at $500 billion. The ChatGPT maker keeps releasing products quickly. Last week, it launched a new version of its AI video generation app, Sora, with a social feed. The company also partnered with Stripe on a new agentic commerce platform.
Today, OpenAI released three new products. The first is the Apps SDK, which lets users chat with other apps inside ChatGPT, including Spotify, Canva, Booking.com, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, and Zillow. The second is AgentKit, a set of tools for developers and enterprises to build and deploy AI agents. OpenAI also announced the wider release of Codex, its code-generation model that powers natural-language programming (NLP) inside ChatGPT.
