ChatGPT continues to soar.
Based on an X put up knowledge aggregation firm Similarweb, the ChatGPT app for iOS was downloaded round 29.6 million occasions over the previous 28 days; over the identical time interval, App Retailer downloads of TikTok, Fb, Instagram, and X reached a mixed whole of about 32.9 million — a distinction of round 10.6%.
Nevertheless, as critics within the X thread identified, the social apps in query have had far more lead time to realize adoption. Nonetheless, ChatGPT was probably the most downloaded app on the earth in April, in line with app analytics web site Appfigures, surpassing each Instagram and TikTok.
Based on current court docket filings reported by The Data, ChatGPT had round 600 million month-to-month lively customers in March, in comparison with round 350 million for Google’s Gemini. Similarweb additionally reported in April that Gemini downloads had surpassed these of ChatGPT for Android units, indicating ChatGPT nonetheless hasn’t cracked Google’s presence inside its personal group.
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A report from Pew Analysis Heart printed Wednesday discovered that the variety of US adults who’ve used ChatGPT at the very least as soon as (about 34%) has doubled since 2023. The report additionally discovered, nonetheless, that almost all of US adults (66%) have by no means used the chatbot, and plenty of (20%) have by no means even heard of it.
Launched to the general public in Nov. 2022, ChatGPT shortly turned a viral sensation, reaching its first million customers in simply 5 days. Its success sparked a race amongst main tech corporations like Google and Meta to spend money on their very own generative AI expertise, an industry-wide pattern which in flip made Nvidia — the US chip producer that dominates the marketplace for GPUs, the technological cornerstone of generative AI — the wealthiest firm on the earth.
ChatGPT has developed and grown considerably since its public debut: it has been geared up with mother or father firm OpenAI’s image-generating expertise, given the ability of speech through Superior Voice Mode, and built-in with Apple’s Siri AI assistant. All of this provides as much as a broad strategic initiative inside OpenAI to make its core chatbot the typical shopper’s go-to, general-purpose AI assistant — particularly as the corporate strikes into {hardware} and even probably workspace productiveness instruments.
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Given the final numbers of app downloads reported by Similarweb (which does not account for all of the customers who’re solely utilizing it through desktop), the corporate appears to be making good progress in the direction of that purpose.
