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OpenAI growth claims, 1 billion weekly active users and revenue pace

March 31, 2026Haider., Sherwin Wu, Prakash (Ate-a-Pi)

VaibhavSrivastav and andrew chen both repeat claims that ChatGPT is nearing or has reached 1 billion weekly active users, alongside rapid revenue milestones like 1 billion dollars within a year and 1 billion dollars per quarter by end of 2024.

processing 5 trillion tokens daily
With the OpenAI API zooming past 15B tokens/min
Every single day OpenAI alone produces more text than everything written by humanity ever.
they say 15 billion tok/min. That's 0.657 quadtrillion tok/month. Google claimed they were at >1 quadtrillion tok/month last year.
$2B per month -> now.
“OpenAI was the fastest technology platform to reach 10 million users, the fastest to 100 million users, and soon the fastest to 1 billion weekly active users.
Within a year of launching ChatGPT, we reached $1B in revenue. By the end of 2024 we were generating $1B per quarter.
open AI reportedly now has 1 billion weekly active users
ChatGPT did it in 3!!
Haider.
Sherwin Wu
Prakash (Ate-a-Pi)
Naveen Rao
The Rundown AI
Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav
andrew chen
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