ChatGPT's weekly active users exceeded 400 million, and paid enterprise users reached 2 million

With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence technology, OpenAI has shown strong growth momentum in the market. According to information disclosed in an interview, the number of weekly active users of its popular product, ChatGPT, as of February this year, has reached 400 million, an increase of 33% from 300 million users in December last year.

Lightcap said that the rapid growth of ChatGPT is a natural process. As the product's practicality increases and the user's familiarity increases, the increase in the number of users is also expected.

In addition, OpenAI's enterprise business has also made significant progress, with the number of paid enterprise users doubled from the level in September last year to 2 million. Lightcap pointed out that many employees actively recommend that companies introduce this tool after individually using ChatGPT, which has brought good spontaneous promotion results. At the same time, more and more developers are integrating OpenAI technology into their applications, and developer traffic has doubled in the past six months, especially its "inference" model o3 usage has increased by five times. Time.

Speaking about the company's future, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said that despite the challenges, the company is expected to achieve $11 billion in revenue in 2025.

However, OpenAI still faces the challenge of losing money. Reports in September last year showed that the company is expected to face a loss of $5 billion by 2024. Additionally, OpenAI is negotiating a $40 billion investment with SoftBank, which will bring its valuation to nearly $300 billion.