ChatGPT reportedly reached 100 million customers in January
ChatGPT has been rising at a charge a lot, a lot quicker than TikTok or every other widespread app or service. In keeping with a brand new examine by analytics agency UBS (by way of Reuters and CBS), the OpenAI-developed chatbot was on tempo to achieve over 100 million month-to-month energetic customers in January. The chatbot solely grew to become out there to the general public on November thirtieth final yr, however its rise to fame has apparently been meteoric. Inside its first month of availability, it already boasted 57 million month-to-month energetic customers, the examine mentioned. By January, it was already being visited by round 13 million particular person customers a day.
Compared, it took TikTok 9 months after its international debut to achieve 100 million month-to-month customers regardless of its reputation, particularly among the many youthful era. UBS analyst Lloyd Walmsley additionally pointed out that Meta’s Instagram had been round for two-and-a-half years earlier than reaching that time. It stays to be seen, nonetheless, if the chatbot can preserve this degree of curiosity within the coming months. “The subsequent query is clearly what its endurance can be. There could also be a component of individuals simply coming to look,” Walmsley added.
ChatGPT offers customers with natural-sounding human-like responses to queries, a lot in order that educators are involved that it may very well be utilized by college students to cheat. Whereas it nonetheless has serious accuracy problems — “Fashions like ChatGPT have a infamous tendency to spew biased, dangerous, and factually incorrect content material,” MIT’s Tech Review wrote in a chunk — there is not one other public chatbot with comparable capabilities. It has reportedly rattled Google’s execs to the purpose that they determined to declare “code purple” and accelerated the corporate’s AI growth. The tech big is engaged on just a few potential ChatGPT competitors, together with a chatbot for search, and is aiming to showcase 20 AI merchandise this yr.
ChatGPT stays free to make use of in the intervening time, and OpenAI does not appear to have any plans to fully lock entry to it behind a paywall. Nevertheless, the startup does intend to begin charging for the service and has already began testing a paid ChatGPT plan for $20 per thirty days, which provides quicker response instances and precedence entry to new options.