OpenAI recently revealed to Axios that its AI chatbot now handles more than 2.5 billion user prompts per day worldwide, a remarkable leap from just 1 billion daily queries in December 2024. And of that figure, around 330 million prompts come from U.S.-based users alone.

That's according to an Axios scoop, which revealed that 2.5 billion prompts are made every day in ChatGPT, OpenAI's signature chatbot.

OpenAI recently told Axios that its popular generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, receives over 2.5 billion prompts per day globally. Of those, over 330 million, or around

OpenAI’s ChatGPT sees more than 2.5 billion requests daily, with 330 million from users based in the US, according to data obtained by Axios.

ChatGPT is facing a spike in outages on Monday morning as OpenAI says it’s working to fix the bugs. OpenAI reported on its status page on Monday that it was experiencing a widespread outage impacting its popular AI chatbot. According to the Downdetector status page, a dramatic spike in outage reports began around 7:00 AM EDT on Monday.

In a 19-page order, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers granted summary judgment to OpenAI, saying that a lesser known tech firm originally built for open-source AI education infringed on the tech leaders’ trademark by offering chatbot and image generator tools, possibly looking to coast off the name recognition of the better known company.

"Now you call one of these things, an AI answers, it's like a super smart capable person… it can do everything that any customer support agent at that company could do, it does not make mistakes, it's very quick, you call once, the thing just happens, it's done, answers right away, great."

Earlier this year, Sam Altman's company began rolling out an advanced voice mode for the chatbot. OpenAI said the new voice feature "offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to ...

OpenAI is planning to take a cut from online product sales made through ChatGPT by integrating a payment checkout system into the chatbot, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing multiple people familiar with the proposals.

"This memorandum is voluntary," the document reads, "not legally binding, and without prejudice to any binding agreements," and "does not prejudice against future procurement decisions" – and no mention has been made of money changing hands,

Experts at OpenAI and Anthropic are calling out Elon Musk and xAI for refusing to publish any safety research. In the wake of Grok, xAI's chatbot, calling itself "MechaHitler" and publicly spewing a ton of racist and anti-Semitic vitriol,