According to information disclosed internally by OpenAI, the number of weekly active users of the company's chatbots is about to break the 1 billion mark. This milestone was originally a goal the company planned to achieve at the end of last year. Although it is expected that this goal will be achieved seven months later than originally anticipated, ChatGPT has accumulated such a huge number of users in less than four years. Even if not considered the number one growth rate, it is one of the fastest growing products in Internet applications. There are multiple factors behind the slowdown in ChatGPT user growth: on the one hand, the rise of Google's Gemini artificial intelligence, which continues to deeply integrate Google's web search engine with billions of users; on the other hand, when OpenAI launched GPT-5 last fall, weekly active user growth declined — the development process of this model had its ups and downs, and was criticized by a large number of users after launch. Furthermore, data from several research institutes shows that since then, Anthropic's Claude chatbot has also taken away part of the chatbot market share.

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