OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to strong progress within the latter half of 2024, based on a brand new report revealed on Thursday by VC agency Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). While it took ChatGPT 9 months to develop from 100 million weekly lively 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 grew to become the quickest app ever to succeed in 100 million month-to-month lively customers — a milestone it hit in solely two months’ time.
By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached one other milestone of 100 million weekly lively customers, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025.
According to a16z, preliminary client demand for ChatGPT was pushed extra by novelty. That is, customers have been concerned about making an attempt the app however weren’t essentially positive how it might match into their on a regular basis lives.
However, ChatGPT’s more moderen 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 May 2024.
Later, after the arrival of Advanced Voice Mode, utilization grew once more from July to August 2024. The o1 mannequin collection led to elevated utilization throughout September to October 2024.
On cellular, ChatGPT’s progress has been extra constant, the agency factors out.
Users of the ChatGPT cellular app have elevated by 5% to fifteen% each month over the previous 12 months, with 175 million of ChatGPT’s whole 400 million weekly lively customers now accessing the app on cellular gadgets.
The report additionally examines the influence rivals like DeepSeek have had available on the market. The app surged to No. 2 globally in simply 10 days and reached No. 2 on cellular in February, capturing 15% of ChatGPT’s cellular person base.
On cellular, DeepSeek customers are even barely extra engaged than Perplexity and Claude customers, based on information from cellular intelligence supplier Sensor Tower. However, it nonetheless lags behind ChatGPT on this entrance.
Other 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 GenAI apps throughout cellular and net.
On the latter entrance, ChatGPT is available in at No. 1 by distinctive month-to-month visits on the internet and month-to-month lively customers on cellular, the report famous, citing information from market intelligence supplier Similarweb.
