OpenAI says ChatGPT usage has doubled since last year. Official ChatGPT usage numbers don't come along very often:
OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had last November.
Axios reported this first, then Emma Roth at The Verge confirmed that number with OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson, adding:
Additionally, Christianson says that 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using OpenAI's products, while API usage has doubled following the release of the company's cheaper and smarter model GPT-4o Mini.
Does that mean API usage doubled in just the past five weeks? According to OpenAI's Head of Product, API Olivier Godement it does :
The article is accurate. :-)
The metric that doubled was tokens processed by the API.
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