OpenAI Hits 400 Million Weekly Users as AI Adoption Surges

The AI leader reports rapid growth in both consumer and enterprise use, while competition from China's DeepSeek raises questions about U.S. dominance in the field.

OpenAI's weekly active users have grown to 400 million in February, up from 300 million in December 2024, reflecting a 33% increase.
The company now has 2 million paying enterprise users, doubling since September 2024, as businesses increasingly adopt ChatGPT tools.
Developer traffic for OpenAI's APIs has doubled over the last six months, with its o3 reasoning model seeing a fivefold surge since its January launch.
Chinese competitor DeepSeek has introduced AI models it claims rival Western offerings, but its rapid growth has led to outages and raised concerns about how it acquired restricted Nvidia chips.
OpenAI faces legal challenges, including a lawsuit from co-founder Elon Musk, while SoftBank is reportedly nearing a $40 billion investment valuing the company at $300 billion.

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