{"id":3033733,"date":"2025-08-04T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=3033733"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:08:36","slug":"openai-says-chatgpt-is-on-track-to-reach-700m-weekly-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/04\/openai-says-chatgpt-is-on-track-to-reach-700m-weekly-users\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ChatGPT&#8217;s impressive growth as a consumer app continues as the chatbot is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, the company says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The app had earlier reached 500 million weekly active users as of the end of March, noted Nick Turley, OpenAI VP and head of ChatGPT&#8217;s app, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nickaturley\/status\/1952385556664520875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">in a post on X<\/a>. He also said the app has grown 4x since last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems. Big week ahead. Grateful to the team for making ChatGPT more useful and delivering on our mission so everyone can benefit from AI,&#8221; he posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The app&#8217;s popularity increased after OpenAI launched an <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/25\/chatgpts-image-generation-feature-gets-an-upgrade\/\">upgraded image-generation feature<\/a>, powered by the GPT-4 model, in March. 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