What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. - Ars Technica
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/seven-things-we-learned-from-openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage
What Jamie wrote
Some super interesting usage data from OpenAI about ChatGPT.
- ChatGPT added over 300M active users in the last 6 months? That is incredible. Nearly doubled!
- Interesting how heavily male the user base was in the beginning and is now close to even.
- 72% of requests to ChatGPT are "non-work" related.
- Over 50% of the usage is either Helping with Writing or "Practical Guidance".
- Only 7% of usage is "multimedia" which is something I do a lot of.
Most recent data I've seen says ChatGPT standalone is a $2B recurring revenue business. Given that growth in the last 6 months I wouldn't be surprised if it is now $4B standalone.
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