ChatGPT continues to lead

NEW YORK — OpenAI's popular chatbot, ChatGPT, will reach 700 million weekly active users this week, more than quadrupling year-over-year growth, the company announced.

“This week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700 million weekly active users, up from 500 million (weekly active users) at the end of March and four times as much as last year,” Nick Turley, ChatGPT’s vice president of product, wrote yesterday on his X account, as quoted by EFE.

“Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving more complex problems. It's an important week! We thank the team for making ChatGPT more useful and for fulfilling our mission to empower everyone with AI,” he added.

This figure covers all of ChatGPT's AI products (free, Plus Pro, Enterprise, Team, and Edu) and coincides with the technology firm's surpassing 3 billion daily user messages.

The company behind ChatGPT, led by Sam Altman, nearly doubled its revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching $12 billion in annual revenue, The Information reported last week.

OpenAI is one of 25 companies that voluntarily joined the code of good practices for the use of artificial intelligence promoted by the European Commission.

Among them are also Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft. Notably absent are Meta and the Chinese companies Alibaba, Baidu, and Deepseek.

According to EFE, Elon Musk, owner of xAI, decided to sign only the security chapter and not join the other two, which focus on copyright and transparency.

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In force

Last Saturday, European Union rules for generative artificial intelligence models came into force, requiring large systems like Google's ChatGPT and Gemini to respect copyrighted content and not provide information that is discriminatory or violates fundamental rights.