By Reuters
February 20, 2025 – 7:12 AM PST
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(Reuters) – ChatGPT developer OpenAI’s weekly active users surged past 400 million in February, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, highlighting rapid growth in the adoption of artificial intelligence tools.
The Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) startup had 300 million weekly active users in December. Its paying business users also crossed 2 million in February, more than doubling from its last update in September.
The upbeat numbers come weeks after China’s DeepSeek launched an AI model it said could match or even outperform Western rivals at a fraction of the cost, stirring doubts about U.S. dominance in the generative AI space.
But a surge in demand for DeepSeek since then has caused outages at the small startup.
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