ChatGPT on track to reach 700 million weekly active users as growth accelerates with new features and rising subscriptions

ChatGPT is on track to reach 700 million weekly active users this week, according to OpenAI. The milestone follows the chatbot’s previous achievement of 500 million weekly users by the end of March, as shared by Nick Turley, OpenAI’s Vice President and head of the ChatGPT app, in a post on X. Turley highlighted the app’s remarkable growth, noting it has quadrupled in size over the past year. “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,” he wrote. The surge in user engagement comes after OpenAI introduced an enhanced image-generation feature powered by the GPT-4 model in March. The update quickly drove significant usage, with COO Brad Lightcap reporting in early April that over 130 million users had created more than 700 million images within just a few days. Subscription growth has also accelerated. Lightcap recently revealed that ChatGPT now has 5 million paying business users—up from 3 million in June—indicating strong enterprise adoption. According to a recent report by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, users spend an average of 16 minutes per day on the app in the first half of 2025, second only to Google and X in daily engagement. On average, users interact with ChatGPT for over 12 days per month, underscoring its deep integration into daily routines across personal and professional workflows.