ChatGPT reaches 900 million weekly active users as OpenAI secures $110 billion funding round

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ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users, OpenAI announced Friday, putting the AI chatbot within striking distance of 1 billion. OpenAI also shared that it now has 50 million paying subscribers. "Subscriber momentum accelerated meaningfully to start the year, with January and February on track to be the largest months for new subscribers in our history," the company wrote in a blog post. "People use ChatGPT to learn, write, plan, and build. As usage scales, the product improves in ways people feel immediately: faster responses, higher reliability, stronger safety, and more consistent performance." The figure marks a jump of 100 million users from the 800 million OpenAI reported in October 2025. OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding, marking one of the largest private funding rounds in history. The new funding includes a $50 billion investment from Amazon, along with $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, at a $730 billion pre-money valuation. The round remains open, and the company expects more investors to join.

ChatGPT Has Almost 1 Billion Weekly Users, OpenAI Says

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI reports that ChatGPT, its AI chatbot, has more than 900 million weekly active users, up from 700 million in September. The company also says the service now has more than 50 million consumer subscribers. The number of weekly ChatGPT users has more than doubled since February 2025, when it had 400 million users, and the current 9 million business subscribers is a fourfold increase from September. In comparison, competitor Anthropic says its free Claude users have increased by 60% since January, and its paid subscribers have doubled, though it didn't provide numbers. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) In addition, OpenAI announced a scaled-back investment from Nvidia of $30 billion, down from the $100 billion initially touted, while SoftBank will now contribute $30 billion and Amazon $50 billion. In January, ChatGPT added a new $8 Go Subscription level, which includes ads, prompting Anthropic's Super Bowl ad to make fun of this by "pinky promising" not to do the same. ChatGPT is the most popular chatbot and, with the latest rounds of investment, its parent company, OpenAI, is now valued at $730 billion, it says. The chatbot's growth shows just how deeply generative AI has penetrated global digital life, making it one of the fastest-adopted technologies in history. ChatGPT has significantly outpaced rivals like Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude. Such rapid growth has fueled excitement about AI's potential but also sparked debates over responsible use, including concerns about AI hallucinations.