Sam Altman Says Chatgpt Has Hit 800m Weekly Active Users

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10:30 AM PDT · October 6, 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 cardinal play progressive users, marking an summation of take among consumers, developers, enterprises, and governments.

ChatGPT’s awesome maturation comes arsenic OpenAI is connected a title to secure arsenic galore AI chips and build arsenic much AI infrastructure as possible. It besides comes conscionable 2 months aft OpenAI said it was connected way to hit 700 cardinal play progressive users. That’s an summation from 500 cardinal play progressive users astatine nan extremity of March.

“Today, 4 cardinal developers person built with OpenAI,” Altman said during OpenAI’s Dev Day. “More than 800 group use ChatGPT each week, and we process complete 6 cardinal tokens per infinitesimal connected nan API. Thanks to each of you, AI has gone from thing group build play pinch to thing group build pinch each day.”

OpenAI is intelligibly trying to boost those numbers moreover further by focusing much connected developers. At Dev Day, Altman said nan company today launched successful preview an Apps SDK, aliases package improvement kit, to alteration developers to “build existent apps” wrong ChatGPT.

“This will alteration a caller procreation of apps that are interactive, adaptive, and personalized, that you tin chat with,” Altman said.

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