ChatGPT developer OpenAI’s weekly lively customers surged previous 400 million in February, an organization spokesperson informed Reuters on Thursday, highlighting speedy progress within the adoption of synthetic intelligence instruments.
The Microsoft-backed startup had 300 million weekly lively customers in December. Its paying enterprise customers additionally crossed 2 million in February, greater than doubling from its final replace in September.
The upbeat numbers come weeks after China’s DeepSeek launched an AI mannequin it mentioned might match and even outperform Western rivals at a fraction of the fee, stirring doubts about US dominance within the generative AI area.
However a surge in demand for DeepSeek since then has brought about outages on the small startup.
There have additionally been questions round how DeepSeek was capable of receive Nvidia’s H800 chips, used to coach AI fashions, although Washington had banned their exports to China.
OpenAI reported a twofold enhance in developer visitors for its reasoning fashions over the past six months and a fivefold surge for its o3 mannequin since its launch in late January.
The information about OpenAI’s weekly customers was first reported by CNBC earlier within the day.
© Thomson Reuters 2025
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