New Delhi: The rising popularity of ChatGPT is not scaling down. According to Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, the AI chatbot currently has more than 800 million weekly active users, which is one of the fastest-evolving trends in the history of tech. This number, as declared at the Dev Day 2025 of OpenAI, underscores the fact that ChatGPT has become a productivity and creativity resource in the world. Only half a year prior, the user base was 500 million, which once again highlights the pace with which the platform is being adopted in the mainstream by individuals, developers, businesses, and even government agencies.
Altman also reported that four million developers are currently developing with the tools of OpenAI, and the platform handles over 6 billion tokens per minute using its API. Such explosive use has seen OpenAI enter a significant scale expansion stage, including new data centres and AI chips to keep up with skyrocketing demand.
Building a smarter, more personal ChatGPT
During Dev Day, OpenAI launched new functionalities whereby developers can construct talkative programs in-built within ChatGPT as a part of its vision to make the assistant more responsive and personalised. Another move by the company, on one hand, involved unveiling Pulse, an active AI that will send everyday people personalised updates, and this will act as part of entrenching ChatGPT within the routine of its users.
ChatGPT, which went on to be the notorious AI product of the decade since its debut in November 2022, has become the engine that drives a whole ecosystem of AI-based services and tools. In spite of the continuing discussion around bias and factual soundness, the valuation of OpenAI has been skyrocketing to $500 billion after a recent stock offering. This milestone follows an active month which includes the launch of Sora, the latest video generator offered by OpenAI, and a new agentic commerce platform as a joint venture with Stripe.