These are the current stats and future prospects of AI evolution
OpenAI's ChatGPT is a turning point in the world of AI as we know it. Launched on the 30th of November of 2022, ChatGPT broke all records achieving over one million subscribers in just five days. But what makes this artificial intelligence chatbot so special? Its language model, capable of understanding all kinds of human prompts as well as its ability to carry out an endless variety of tasks are just a few of its main strenghts. In fact, ChatGPT has changed the way we work, making life easier for businesses around the world, simplifying and replacing its daily tasks.
But, what can we expect of ChatGPT in the years to come? In today's article we'll explore the past and present of OpenAI's artificial intelligence through its stats. And, through this data, we'll be able to paint a clear picture of the future of ChatGPT and generative AI.
According to OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson, more than 200 million people are using ChatGPT weekly in 2024. This is double the number confirmed in 2023 by OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman. Attracting 2.44 billion visitors in July 2024, it is safe to say the generative AI has been already globally adopted and used on a daily basis.
In fact, Facebook took four and a half years to reach the same mark as ChatGPT and OpenAI's app has become the fastest to reach 100 million users before the launch of Instagram Threads.
(Source: Statista)
ChatGPT's traffic and usage has increased exponentially since its launch. As of July 2024, ChatGPT monthly visits reached 2.44 billion, increasing 34.81% from April 2024 (1.81 billion). This has made ChatGPT one of the most visited pages worldwide.
Here's an evolution of ChatGPT's monthly visits:
As seen by the data, ChatGPT had its peak in April 2024, receiving 1.8 billion visits per month. However, according to the latest available data, the site experienced a sudden decrease and currently gets over 120 million monthly visits.
As of September 2024, the average ChatGPT user spends 59 seconds on the website, checking a total of 1.19 pages during their visit. During the past three months, ChatGPT's bounce rate has increased 32.6%, reaching a total of 87.79%.
According to the last available data, the vast majority of ChatGPT's traffic is direct traffic (89.28%) and organic one (9.15%). The numbers decrease considerably when we look at referrals (0.92%), Mail (0.92%), Social (0.46%) and Display and Paid, both generating only 0.01% of its traffic.
If we delve into the social media traffic, we can see how most of ChatGPT's traffic comes from YouTube (63.94%) followed by X (8.11%) and Facebook (7.82%).
In May 2023, ChatGPT released an iOS app and, some months later, the application became available on Android devices. In the first 8 days after the release, the app was downloaded almost 700.000 times on iOS devices. Also, the app holds a 4.9 rating on the App Store, being one of the best rated apps available. On Android, ChatGPT has been downloaded over 100 million times on the Play Store and currently has over 2.59 million reviews and a rating of 4.6. It is currently the 1st top productivity app on Android's digital store.
The share of male visitors in ChatGPT is slightly higher than female ones, although there isn't much difference to the platform's ratio. 52.44% of ChatGPT's visitors are male versus 47.56% female ones.
Regarding their age, 58.24% of visitors are aged between 18 to 34 years. The numbers are closely followed by 35 to 54 year olds, reaching 31.79% of the site's share. Only 9.98% of ChatGPT visitors are aged over 55.
Currently, the country with the most share of ChatGPT users is the US (12.78%).The numbers are closely followed by India (11.12%) and finally 4.62% of the traffic coming from Brazil. In fourth and fifth place we'd find the UK, with 3.87% and finally Indonesia with 3.84%.
Here's a graph displaying the countries that drive the highest traffic share with data acquired from April 2024 and June 2024.
In a forecast first reported by Reuters, OpenAI stated that the organization predicts a revenue of $1 billion in 2024. Also, according to Fortune, ChatGPT earns $80 million every month. This money mainly comes through the sale of its API, its ChatGPT Plus subscription plans and training data sets. While there's no official data available on OpenAI's generative AI revenue yet, we can predict an exponential boost in 2024.
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A survey made by AIPRM show that ChatGPT is mostly used by education and office purposes. More than 6% of the respondents claimed they used the generative AI to help them write essays and articles. The numbers are closely followed by people who ask ChatGPT to help them write emails and letters. Here's a breakdown of the results showing which are the most common ChatGPT tasks:
As stated in the previous point, one of ChatGPT's main purposes is to generate content. But... How easy is it to recognize ChatGPT generated content vs human written one? According to research done by Tooltester, GPT-4 is able to write content that easily convinces people that it is human written. In comparison to the previous version of ChatGPT (GPT 3.5), the content generated by GPT-4 is 16.4% more human. In fact, almost half of the surveyed people believe that ChatGPT written text has been human generated.
The following graph displays how convincing an AI written text with ChatGPT can be:
The overall cost of running ChatGPT is still a mystery, while some sources claim it costs around $700.000 per day, it has never been confirmed by OpenAI. Sam Altman, the company's CEO stated in an interview that the average cost of a single chat with ChatGPT is in single cent digits. With that data, and keeping in mind ChatGPT has 175 billion parameters and receives 10 million queries a day, an AI professor at Maryland University calculated that the cost of running ChatGPT has to be $100.000. This would lead to an estimated cost of $3 million per month.
ChatGPT is able to perform an apparently neverending range of tasks. However, as stated by its usage policies, there's some uses that OpenAI's chatbot can't help you with. These are:
The future of ChatGPT is still a mystery. However, a recent survey made by AIPRM states how people believe OpenAI's generative AI has the potential to help people in a variety of workplace tasks. According to the survey, 28.8% of the surveyed believe that ChatGPT will help generate quicker and more effective content. Also, the ChatGPT will be able to create helpful and human-like responses to customers, becoming a personalized bot that will streamline job processes.
Here's a breakdown of the survey's results:
As seen by the report, ChatGPT has been rapidly adopted worldwide in all kinds of industries, from education and healthcare to finances. Even with strong contenders in the market (CoPilot, Gemini, etc.), none of them has been able to surpass OpenAI's chatbot for creating content. In fact, ChatGPT's writing quality is so high that it has been adopted by a large share of companies for research and streamline processes. With over 200 million weekly active users worldwide, we can be sure that ChatGPT will continue to revolutionize the way we interact with language models.
