{"id":339272,"date":"2025-06-28T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=339272"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:16:35","slug":"chatgpt-surges-ahead-with-nearly-800-million-weekly-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/chatgpt-surges-ahead-with-nearly-800-million-weekly-users\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Surges Ahead With Nearly 800 Million Weekly Users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT continues to dominate the AI landscape with nearly 800 million weekly active users, including 3 million paid subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This incredible growth places ChatGPT far ahead of Microsoft\u2019s Copilot, which has maintained just 20 million weekly users for the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Microsoft\u2019s significant investment in Copilot, companies that have adopted the service, such as pharmaceutical giant Amgen, have reported that employees overwhelmingly prefer to use ChatGPT, even after the company paid for a 20,000-user plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The recent acceleration of consumer adoption of genAI tools is truly JAW DROPPING \ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f<br><br>Feb 2025: 400 million weekly active users of ChatGPT <br><br>May 2025: 800 MILLION weekly active users of ChatGPT <br><br>Sam Altman shared at TED 2025 on 4\/11 that users had doubled in just a few\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9okLJGzBPR\">pic.twitter.com\/9okLJGzBPR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Natalie Dillon (@ntdillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ntdillon\/status\/1925284403573661771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Employees Prefer ChatGPT Over Microsoft Copilot Despite Corporate Plans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ascent of ChatGPT can largely be attributed to its first-mover advantage. Many office workers had the opportunity to experiment with ChatGPT in their personal lives before Microsoft launched Copilot in the enterprise space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This early exposure appears to have solidified ChatGPT\u2019s reputation, positioning it as the default chatbot for many users. As a result, Microsoft, despite its extensive relationships with corporate IT departments, faces a challenge convincing employees to switch to Copilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it is clear that ChatGPT has created strong brand recognition\u2014so much so that the term &#8220;ChatGPT&#8221; now serves as shorthand for AI chatbots\u2014new competitors like Claude and Gemini are emerging, offering increasingly competitive alternatives. However, ChatGPT&#8217;s legacy as one of the first major chatbots and its established user base provide it with a commanding presence in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It took ChatGPT two months to hit 100 million users. That\u2019s faster than TikTok, Instagram, Netflix, or the iPhone. By April 2025, it had 800 million weekly users and now handles over 365 billion searches annually, as per Mary Meeker&#39;s note. Meeker, one of the foremost voices on\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Niraj Shah (@_nirajshah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_nirajshah\/status\/1929470535274209684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Microsoft attempts to shift user preferences towards Copilot, it will need to contend not only with ChatGPT\u2019s robust popularity but also with the general hurdles that all AI providers face when trying to attract users from a platform that has become synonymous with chatbot technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports suggest that unless Microsoft can effectively demonstrate Copilot\u2019s unique advantages, it may struggle to divert users away from ChatGPT\u2014the chatbot that has become an almost universal benchmark for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT continues to dominate the AI landscape with nearly 800 million weekly active users, including 3 million paid subscribers. This incredible growth places ChatGPT far ahead of Microsoft\u2019s Copilot, which has maintained just 20 million weekly users for the last year. Despite Microsoft\u2019s significant investment in Copilot, companies that have adopted the service, such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/chatgpt-surges-ahead-with-nearly-800-million-weekly-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ChatGPT Surges Ahead With Nearly 800 Million Weekly Users&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":301904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[3746,3885],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6987],"class_list":["post-339272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chatgpt","tag-inteligencia-artificial","content-category-ia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339273,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339272\/revisions\/339273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339272"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=339272"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=339272"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=339272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}