ChatGPT Reaches 300 Million Users After Landmark 2024 Updates
OpenAI's ChatGPT grows to 300 million weekly active users following a massive year of product updates. The chatbot evolves significantly with new reasoning models, Apple partnerships, and advanced voice capabilities.
ChatGPT reaches a massive milestone of 300 million weekly active users as OpenAI caps off a transformative 2024. The text-generating chatbot evolves far beyond its original essay and code-writing capabilities, transforming into a comprehensive AI assistant through major product releases and high-profile partnerships.
Key highlights from this year include the rollout of GPT-4o with advanced voice capabilities and the highly anticipated launch of the Sora text-to-video model. OpenAI also integrates ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence, bringing its AI technology directly to millions of Apple devices and significantly expanding its everyday consumer reach.
The year closes with the announcement of new o3 reasoning models and ongoing research into AI safety through a technique called "deliberative alignment." Despite this rapid progress, new research reveals vulnerabilities in ChatGPT Search, while reports indicate that Microsoft and OpenAI share a strictly financial definition of artificial general intelligence based on profit thresholds.