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Kantrowitz: ChatGPT consumer usage is 70% non-work and 30% work-related
“30% of consumer usage is work-related, and approximately 70% is non-work.”
Roy: ChatGPT processes 18 billion messages per week
“Oh, actually, if you look at it, it's eighteen billion messages per week. So I just did, that's thirty-five million relationship messages right there per week.”
OpenAI: 75% of ChatGPT Use Focuses on Guidance, Info, and Writing
“Three quarters of conversations focus on practical guidance, seeking information, and writing, with writing being the most common work task, while coding and self-expression remain, remain niche activities.”
Kantrowitz: HBR Finds Companionship and Therapy Are AI Chatbots' Top Use Case
“The number one use case for people using these bots is companionship or therapy. That's according to the An article in the Harvard Business Review”
ChatGPT surpasses Wikipedia to become the fifth most-visited website globally
“ChatGPT has overtaken Wikipedia. So ChatGPT is site number five, and Wikipedia is eight.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT web code reveals hidden Shopify checkout and native shopping
“There are new code strings in ChatGPT's public web bundle, including buy now, price, and shipping fields, Product offer ratings, and a Shopify checkout URL, which indicate that OpenAI is wiring a native purchase flow within the Assistant.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Reached 500M Weekly Active Users, Adding 400M in One Year
“Five hundred million people use ChatGPT every week. It's not just the number, but it's the velocity to which they got there in March, 20, 24. So a year ago, they had a hundred million users vetted four hundred million. In in a year, which is crazy.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Reached 20M Paid Subscribers, Up From 15.5M
“ChatGPT revenue surges 30% in just three months. And the company, they say, has hit twenty million paid subscribers. This is something that OpenAI has disclosed. That's up from 15.5 million at the end of last year.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT has 400M users and no competitor is close
“They have chat GPT, which is a hit, four hundred million users. Nobody else comes close and they're pushing forward.”
Kantrowitz: Chegg stock is down 99 percent, erasing $14.5 billion in value
“Chegg stock is down 99% from early twenty-twenty-one, erasing some 14.5 billion of market value.”
Kantrowitz: Google's experimental Gemini 1114 model currently tops the Chatbot Arena leaderboard
“They have a new experimental Gemini model. It's called Gemini exp one, four. And Do you know about, ah, Chatbot Arena where they test which is the best LLMs? It's currently sitting at the top of Chatbot Arena and kicking the butt of ChatGPT for O, O-one Previe…”
Lanzone: All major search engines will route queries between AI and links
“This is clearly whether it's Bing,
Or ChatGPT standalone or perplexity standalone with hitting all the databases they're hitting or now Apple and Google and how they're going to do it. They're all going to be doing that the same way. And so for some queries, i…”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT sessions fell 29% during three summer months in 2023
“Sessions down 29%. Three straight months of declining usage in the summer.”
Nemade: Bing gained only about 1% market share post-ChatGPT
“Bing maybe gained, like, one percent market share before and after ChatGPT.”
Ramaswamy: ChatGPT's user growth has flattened out
“ChatGPT, you know, has had growth, but it has sort of flattened out.”
ChatGPT reached 900 million active users in February 2026
“The latest that we have is nine hundred million active users of ChatGPT. That came in February 2026”
Sora reached one million downloads faster than ChatGPT
“Sora spent 20 days, which is not insignificant. At the top of the US App Store and reached one million downloads faster than ChatGPT.”
Moore: ChatGPT and Claude App Ecosystems Have Only 11% Overlap
“If you look at the app store that they have enabled on ChatGPT, ChatGPT and then the App Store that Anthropic has enabled on Claude, they each have more than 200 apps, but there's only 11% overlap.”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic published a prompt to export ChatGPT memory into Claude
“Anthropic put a prompt that you could copy to ChatGPT to export your memory. Like I was saying, memory's not sticky. They built the prompt that we were talking about, and you drop it in ChatGPT, it prints out your memory, you paste the memory in Claude, and th…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI partners with Walmart, Etsy, and Shopify for commerce revenue share
“They want to take a cut of both the discovery and the transaction when someone searches
For a product using ChatGPT.
This is already happening with Walmart, Etsy, Shopify, all announced on dev, on their dev day.”
Kantrowitz: 70% of OpenAI revenue comes from subscriptions
“70% of revenue is from subscription, so ChatGPT is the lead driver here.”
Roy: OpenAI categorizes ChatGPT messages as 49% asking, 40% doing, 11% expressing
“They had three patterns within messages, asking, doing, and expressing. About half of messages, 49% are asking and then expressing, doing is 40%, expressing is 11%.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT web traffic flatlined for a year starting early 2023
“ChatGPT had been flatlining. The growth had just completely stopped. So you see a very, very quick run up to a hundred million Monthly users or on the chart that we're looking at now from similar web, they're measuring web traffic. So about two billion visits …”
Newton: OpenAI reported ChatGPT reached 300 million weekly users
“Recently OpenAI told us that ChatGPT had three hundred million users a week.”
ChatGPT Reaches 200 Million Weekly Active Users
“So now this is the first official new number that we've gotten. It opened, that ChatGPT is doing two hundred million weekly active users.”
Levie: OpenAI cut high-quality token costs tenfold in 18 months
“And the fact that we've now done that, or not we, I mean, OpenAI has basically done that, you know, I don't know, four or five times in the past 18 months. So we're already maybe a 10th of the total amount of cost of a kind of fairly high quality token just in…”
Levie: AI context windows improved 500x in 18 months
“And at the start of ChatGPT in let's call it November of twenty-twenty-two, the context window was somewhere on the order of about 4000 tokens. Just yesterday Sundar announced two million tokens on the latest Gemini model. So when you think about it there's li…”