OpenAI users have surged to over 400 million.

OpenAI's weekly active users have surged to over 400 million since the beginning of February, a figure that reflects the rapid growth in the adoption of artificial intelligence tools into ChatGPT.

The startup backed by Microsoft had 300 million weekly active users by December 2024. The number of its paying business users also surpassed 2 million by February 2025, double the number from the last update in September 2025.

Over 400 million people will be using OpenAI products every week in February 2025.

These optimistic figures come a few weeks after the Chinese chatbot application DeepSeek launched an AI model that the company describes as being able to rival, or even surpass, its Western competitors. Notably, DeepSeek claims its application costs only a fraction of the price, raising doubts about America's dominance in the AI ​​space.

The surge in demand for DeepSeek since its launch has caused considerable difficulties for ChatGPT, after a significant number of users, particularly in Asia, tested the new chatbot from China.

However, the surge in user numbers since the beginning of February 2025 shows that OpenAI's product is gaining more and more acceptance, thanks to its efforts to improve artificial intelligence. Representatives of the manufacturer ChatGPT revealed that the product regularly had more than 400 million users per week in the early part of this year.

Additionally, there are questions surrounding how DeepSeek was able to obtain Nvidia's H800 chips, used to train AI models, despite Washington's ban on exporting them to China.

According to a report from OpenAI, traffic to the manufacturer's ChatGPT reasoning models has doubled in the past six months, and traffic to the o3 model has increased fivefold since its launch at the end of January 2025.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/nguoi-dung-openai-tang-vot-len-hon-400-trieu-192250221000237476.htm