OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to stable progress within the latter half of 2024, in keeping with a brand new report printed on Thursday by VC agency Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Whereas it took ChatGPT 9 months to develop from 100 million weekly energetic customers in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, it’s now taken lower than six months for the app to double these numbers but once more, the report discovered.
Shortly after its November 2022 launch as a analysis preview, ChatGPT turned the quickest app ever to succeed in 100 million month-to-month energetic customers — a milestone it hit in solely two months’ time.
By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached one other milestone of 100 million weekly energetic customers, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025.
In keeping with a16z, preliminary shopper demand for ChatGPT was pushed extra by novelty. That’s, shoppers had been interested by making an attempt the app however weren’t essentially positive how it could match into their on a regular basis lives.
Nevertheless, ChatGPT’s newer progress comes on the heels of the discharge of latest fashions and performance, together with the launch of GPT-4o, which added multimodal capabilities. Shortly after that mannequin’s launch, ChatGPT utilization spiked from April via Might 2024.
Later, after the arrival of Superior Voice Mode, utilization grew once more from July to August 2024. The o1 mannequin sequence, led to elevated utilization throughout September to October 2024.
On cell, ChatGPT’s progress has been extra constant, the agency factors out.
Customers of the ChatGPT cell app have elevated by 5% to fifteen% each month over the previous 12 months, with 175 million of ChatGPT’s whole 400 million weekly energetic customers now accessing the app on cell units.
The report additionally examines the impression rivals like DeepSeek have had in the marketplace. The app surged to No. 2 globally in simply 10 days and reached No. 2 on cell in February, capturing 15% of ChatGPT’s cell person base.
On cell, DeepSeek customers are even barely extra engaged than Perplexity and Claude customers, in keeping with knowledge from cell intelligence supplier Sensor Tower. Nevertheless, it nonetheless lags behind ChatGPT on this entrance.
Different findings within the new market evaluation embody suggestions of instruments for AI builders and coders, rankings of the highest AI apps by class and income, and rankings of the highest gen AI apps throughout cell and internet.
On the latter entrance, ChatGPT is available in at No. 1 by distinctive month-to-month visits on the net and month-to-month energetic customers on cell, the report famous, citing knowledge from market intelligence supplier Similarweb.
