Sam Altman touts ChatGPT’s reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding
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Altman told OpenAI employees on Friday that ChatGPT, the company’s popular artificial intelligence chatbot, is “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth,” according to an internal Slack message viewed by CNBC. OpenAI is also preparing to launch “an updated Chat model” this week, Altman said.
More than 800 million people use ChatGPT each week, but Google and Anthropic have been gaining ground. OpenAI declared a “code red” in December to improve ChatGPT, and temporarily sidelined several projects to focus on that effort.
In his message on Friday, Altman said OpenAI’s coding product, Codex, grew about 50% from a week ago. Codex competes directly with Anthropic’s Claude Code, which has seen a wave of adoption over the last year.
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