Overview

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that user politeness, such as saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT, has resulted in tens of millions of dollars in additional electricity costs.
• Each ChatGPT-4 query consumes approximately 2.9 watt-hours of electricity, ten times more than a typical Google search, with over one billion queries processed daily.
• ChatGPT usage has surged to 800 million weekly active users, representing roughly 10% of the global population, according to Altman.
• OpenAI recently introduced two new reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, achieving strong performance in coding tests to maintain a competitive edge in the AI industry.
• Experts suggest polite user interactions may enhance AI responses, fostering more respectful and collaborative outputs.