The launch of ChatGPT back in November 2022 revolutionized how people use AI in everyday life. It disrupted the AI development industry and took the whole world by storm.
Buy why? Why is the launch of ChatGPT considered a historic moment? Let’s find out with these interesting ChatGPT Statistics and facts.
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Did you know ChatGPT is now the fastest website to receive one million users? It achieved the milestone within just five days of its global launch. For more exciting facts about ChatGPT, keep reading this article.
Launched as an AI-driven language model that can interact with real people, understand their queries, and provide appropriate responses, ChatGPT became an instant hit among professionals like developers, SEO and content marketing companies, which were soon using it to make their processes more efficient, reduce operational time and costs, and automate day-to-day tasks.
The future of ChatGPT looks as promising as the last two years during which it has transformed many industries and jobs through its innovative AI language model.
Here are 101+ statistics about ChatGPT’s popularity, active users, revenue, adoption rate, subscribers, market share, and valuation, which prove that this ingenious AI product is here to stay.
The number of businesses and individuals using ChatGPT for professional, personal, and research purposes is in the billions. Here are many more interesting and latest ChatGPT statistics.
1. OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a revolutionary AI language model (AI-based chat app), on 30 November 2022.
2. It became an instant hit and received its first 5 million users within five days.
3. In just one month of its launch, ChatGPT had received approximately 152 million visitors, making it the most popular new launch of the year.
4. By the end of February 2023, ChatGPT reportedly had 100 million monthly active users.
OpenAI Usage Statistics
5. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company that created and launched ChatGPT, was fired from the company’s board on November 18, 2023.
6. Only a couple of days later, OpenAI announced its decision to reinstate Sam Altman as the company CEO.
7. As of December 2023, the number of people actively using OpenAI’s ChatGPT increased to 180 million.
8. On March 8, 2024, Altman again became a member of the OpenAI’s board of directors.
ChatGPT Monthly Active Users Worldwide
9. The highest monthly traffic on ChatGPT was recorded between January and April 2024, when the site was receiving nearly 2 billion visits per month, making it one of the most-visited websites of all time.
10. As of June 2024, ChatGPT has over 200 million monthly active users worldwide, of which more than 100 million use the website/app every week.
11. ChatGPT was banned in China immediately after its launch due to its US origin. Other major countries that have banned AI software include Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Italy, Iran, and Syria.
ChatGPT Users in India
12. After the USA (16.49%), India (7.42%) has the second-highest number of ChatGPT users.
13. On average, the ChatGPT website receives 1.7 billion monthly views/visits. In comparison, Google receives around 85 billion monthly visits on average.
How many people use ChatGPT in the US?
14. Over 77 million US residents use ChatGPT. 23% of American adults accept that they have used ChatGPT at least once.
15. ChatGPT is expected to generate revenue between $1 billion to $2 billion for OpenAI in 2024.
16. OpenAI spends roughly $100,000 every day to run ChatGPT. However, a single chat spending is not more than a few cents.
17. Over 34% of ChatGPT users are people between the ages of 25 and 34.
How Many ChatGPT Plus Users
18. ChatGPT Plus, the premium subscription plan of ChatGPT, has around 7.7 million subscribers worldwide, of which over 3.9 million are in the US alone.
19. The plus version of ChatGPT (GPT-4) costs $20 per month and is said to be 40% more accurate and 82% safer than the free version.
20. Almost 60% of all ChatGPT users are male.
22. As of 2024, ChatGPT has a 59.5% market share in the AI product (tools) space, followed by Microsoft Copilot (14.6%), Google Gemini (13.8%), and Perplexity (5.3%). Source: firstpagesage.com
23. ChatGPT is now used across 20+ industries, including education, training, finance, marketing, automation, travel, coding, design, writing, data analysis, research, and others.
24. According to a report, around 80% of Fortune 500 companies use ChatGPT.
25. Almost 45% of college students use ChatGPT.
26. Thanks to ChatGPT, the market valuation of OpenAI has now reached nearly $100 billion. The valuation of the company increased by over three times within a year between 2023 and 2024.
27. According to a 2023 survey, 1/4th of US companies using ChatGPT reportedly saved $50K-$70K in a year. 1/10th of these companies reported saving up to $100k a year.
28. As of 2024, OpenAI has around 1,700 employees worldwide, according to Wikipedia. The actual number, however, is expected to be much larger.
29. Almost 43% of US adults between the ages of 18 and 29 have used ChatGPT.
30. Until February 2023, ChatGPT Plus, the premium version of ChatGPT, was available only to users in the US.
31. More than 74% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers continued their subscriptions after three quarters (9 months).
How Long Did it Take ChatGPT to Reach 100 Million Users?
32. The number of ChatGPT users nearly doubled from 100 million in February 2023 to over 200 million in June 2024.
33. Instagram’s Thread is the only app to have reached 1 million users faster than ChatGPT.
34. Within exactly one year of its launch, in November 2023, the ChatGPT website reached 10 billion all-time visits.
35. In August 2024, the total number of visits to the ChatGPT website, including desktop and mobile, was 2.6 billion, as compared to 2.4 billion visits in July 2024.
36. Chatgpt.com’s top traffic sources include direct traffic, organic search, and referrals.
37. In August 2024, ChatGPT received 63.78% of its social media traffic from YouTube.
38. The average time spent per user per active session on the ChatGPT website was 13 minutes 35 seconds in January 2024. As compared, the global average in 2024 is 54 seconds.
39. ChatGPT ranks #1 of all AI subscription products with a market share of close to 70%. The second most used paid AI tool had a 5.2% market share.
40. The average time spent on the ChatGPT website is 8 minutes and 32 seconds, with a moderate bounce rate of 38.67%.
42. ChatGPT reportedly receives an average monthly revenue of $4.58 million from its mobile subscribers alone.
43. Different variants of ChatGPT are available for desktop, web, and mobile. For mobile users, the ChatGPT app comes in separate Android and iOS variants.
44. ChatGPT’s Android app has 100M+ downloads on the Play Store.
45. The iOS app of ChatGPT has 1.1M Ratings and an overall 4.9/5 score.
46. ChatGPT was initially launched only in the US market and was later made available in other markets in June 2023.
47. Within its first month of launch in the US, the ChatGPT app was downloaded nearly four million times on the Apple App Store. The number of downloads reached 12 million upon launch to other global markets.
48. The mobile app of ChatGPT is more capable than the web version and can do things like editing images, generating new images, and accepting voice commands.
49. OpenAI has so far raised a total funding of $11.3B from 36 investors in 7 different phases since the launch of ChatGPT.
50. Major investors in OpenAI/ChatGPT include Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, Tigers Global, a16z, and Founders Fund.
51. OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in December 2015.
52. Besides ChatGPT, DALL-E (text-to-image models) and Sora (a text-to-video model) are other major products of OpenAI.
53. Microsoft owns around 49% of OpenAI.
54. The latest version of ChatGPT, GPT-4, was launched on March 14, 2023, and is available only to paid subscribers (GPT Plus users).
55. GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer.
56. GPT-4o (GPT-4 Omni) was launched on 13 May 2024. It is free but has a usage limit.
57. As of February 2024, ChatGPT is making upwards of $160 million per month and close to $2 billion per year for OpenAI.
58. During the initial couple of months of its launch, ChatGPT’s revenue was less than $10 million, which soared in 2023 to over $200 million.
59. The average time spent per visit on the ChatGPT website/app is around 7 minutes and 46 seconds.
60. In October 2023, Open AI reportedly earned $4.58 million from the mobile app of ChatGPT Plus.
What is the number of ChatGPT users who use the AI tool to write essays and articles?
62. Research shows more than 6% of ChatGPT users use the AI tool to write essays and articles. Other most common uses of ChatGPT include writing emails, creative writing, social media posts, speech writing, translation, and coding.
63. A small percentage of users use ChatGPT for personal purposes, such as cooking tips, healthcare assistance, and search.
64. ChatGPT operates on the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which uses deep learning methods to understand and generate human-friendly text.
65. ChatGPT is constantly trained on a diverse range and types of online text, allowing it to learn about a wide array of topics.
66. ChatGPT’s text-generation ability is limited to its knowledge and what it has learned.
67. ChatGPT has no memory. It cannot remember past interactions or conversations.
68. ChatGPT has been trained to understand and generate responses in over 20 languages, with its primary language being English.
69. Instructions given to ChatGPT by users searching for answers are called prompts. Users can enter custom prompts in ChatGPT to get personalized responses matching their preferences.
70. Beyond simple Q&A, ChatGPT can assist in research, brainstorming ideas, creative writing, story writing, generating code, etc.
71. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT cannot think like humans and may sometimes produce incorrect or senseless answers. It may have limited knowledge of certain topics.
72. GPT models contain billions of parameters. GPT-4, the latest version, has 1.8 trillion parameters, allowing it to understand complex commands and language.
73. The typical response time of ChatGPT is less than a second, which allows users to converse with the software in real-time.
74. Over 90% of ChatGPT users reportedly use it for purposes ranging from learning, education, entertainment, dating, and professional tasks.
75. OpenAI actively collects and uses user feedback to constantly improve ChatGPT’s performance.
76. ChatGPT integrates several content moderation tools that verify user queries and block harmful or inappropriate inputs to maintain a safer experience for everyone.
77. Over 50% of ChatGPT users have utilized the custom instructions feature to personalize their chat experiences.
78. ChatGPT uses the transformer model, a groundbreaking deep learning architecture introduced in a 2017 seminar paper titled “Attention is All You Need,” disrupting how natural language processing (NLP) works.
79. According to OpenAI, the quality and relevance of ChatGPT’s response significantly depend on how a question is phrased. The model can understand context and wording.
80. ChatGPT has a feature called zero-shot learning, which allows it to have general knowledge of a lot of things, even the ones it hasn’t been specifically trained on.
82. ChatGPT isn’t a search engine, nor does it operate like one. It does not retrieve information from the internet but can only generate responses based on its existing knowledge and training.
83. Did you know that ChatGPT can help people with disabilities by turning text into speech, providing assistance with communication and enhancing accessibility?
84. Dall-E is another popular OpenAI product that can turn text into images. It can generate AI images based on user instructions.
85. Sora is an upcoming AI tool by OpenAI that can generate detailed videos from text.
86. Some popular ChatGPT alternatives are Open Assistant, Google Gemini, Grok AI, Bing AI, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, and Perplexity. Many of these are based or trained on ChatGPT.
87. OpenAI, ChatGPT’s parent company, was co-founded by Elon Musk to research and develop AI. He left the organization in 2018.
88. Generative AI startups are on a roll. Over $14 billion was raised by generative AI startups through 86 deals in the first half of 2023.
89. As useful as ChatGPT is for some, it can do massive damage if fallen into the wrong hands. Over 50% of IT professionals believe that ChatGPT can assist in organizing a cyberattack.
90. Many businesses are using AI to generate fake reviews. Almost 30% of all online reviews published after the launch of ChatGPT are suspected to be AI-generated.
91. OpenAI is claimed to be valued at around $29 billion in April 2023 and is seeking to reach a valuation of $80+ billion by the end of 2024.
92. ChatGPT Plus has a feature called Browse, which allows it to search the web for information.
93. ChatGPT Plus users can generate images using integrated Dall-E. They can also upload images and ask questions about them.
94. The mobile app of ChatGPT 4, the latest version, also accepts voice instructions.
95. ChatGPT 4 also allows users to upload documents such as PDFs.
96. The latest ChatGPT version integrates several plugins, which can be used to open links, draw diagrams, run code, and more.
97. ChatGPT, by default, stores user chats and conversations and uses them to learn and improve itself. However, users can turn “Chat History” off in settings.
98. Over 90% of the ChatGPT website’s traffic is direct, i.e. most users directly enter the URL in a browser to open the ChatGPT website.
99. Over 48% of ChatGPT’s social media traffic comes from YouTube. Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are other major social networks contributing to the AI tools traffic.
100. GPT-4 passed the bar exam by scoring 298 out of 400, around the 90th percentile.
102. According to research, ChatGPT passed the US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).
How Many Questions Can You Ask ChatGPT for Free Each Day?
103. With the GPT-4 version, you can usually ask about 50 questions in a 4-hour period. In the free version of ChatGPT, the limit is around 20 to 30 questions per hour.
Conclusion
Within just a couple of years of its launch, ChatGPT has become the most popular and used generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed. As of now, it entertains and assists millions of users worldwide, including professionals and organizations. The latest version, GPT-4, is more powerful than ever and can understand and answer more complex questions and perform a variety of tasks. Hope you find these ChatGPT statistics amusing and informative. If you’re searching for chatbot development services, contact our team at SAGIPL.com
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