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Wednesday, Reuters report Just two months after its launch, its AI bot ChatGPT reached an estimated 100 million monthly active users last month, making it “the fastest growing consumer application of all time.” UBSMore Investment bank research notes. By comparison, it took him nine months to reach 100 million monthly users on TikTok, and about 2.5 years on Instagram. according to To UBS researcher Lloyd Walmsley.
“Twenty years have passed since we followed the Internet space, and we cannot recall the rapid adoption of consumer Internet apps,” Reuters quoted Walmsley as writing in a UBS memo.
The UBS data was provided by an analytics firm, according to Reuters. similar webAbout 13 million unique visitors used ChatGPT every day in January, and doubled the number of users in December.
ChatGPT is a conversational Large Language Model (LLM) that enables near-human-level discussions on almost any topic. It reads context and answers questions easily, but may not be accurate (improving accuracy is a work in progress).rear During startup As a free public beta on November 30th, GPT-3 AI bots powered by education, computer securityWhen financeIt rocked the tech industry, $10 billion investment From Microsoft to Google Watch that life flash before your eyes.
Also on Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Plus is a $20/month subscription service that gives users faster response times, priority access to ChatGPT during peak hours, and priority access to new features. This is an attempt to keep up with the intense demand for ChatGPT, where sites often reject users due to overwhelming activity.
Over the last few decades, researchers have noticed that: technology adoption rate Inventions such as the telephone, television, and the Internet have shortened the time to reach a huge number of users. Will generative AI tools be next on that list? With a trajectory like ChatGPT’s, it’s entirely possible.
