Overview

• OpenAI’s inaugural consumer report covers May 2024–June 2025 and estimates more than 700 million weekly active users by June, with women forming a slight majority and 18–25 year‑olds generating about 46% of messages.
• Non‑work interactions rose to 73% of chats, writing is the leading work use at 40%, and messages classify largely into Asking (49%), Doing (40%) and Expressing (11%), with direct code generation at 4.2%.
• Adoption in low‑middle income countries grew roughly four times faster than in high‑income markets, signaling rapid diffusion beyond traditional early adopters.
• OpenAI outlined teen protections including age prediction to route users under 18 to a youth mode, stricter rules on sexual content and self‑harm topics, and forthcoming parental controls launching this month.
• As safety scrutiny intensified, including testimony from a father who has sued OpenAI alleging ChatGPT influenced his son’s suicide, the company also introduced GPT‑5‑Codex for programming with dynamic time allocation, seven‑hour autonomous coding in tests, faster simple responses, and IDE integrations such as VS Code and Cursor.