The Microsoft-backed startup had 300 million weekly energetic customers in December. Its paying enterprise customers additionally crossed 2 million in February, greater than doubling from its final replace in September.
The upbeat numbers come weeks after China’s DeepSeek launched an AI mannequin it stated may match and even outperform Western rivals at a fraction of the associated fee, stirring doubts about US dominance within the generative AI house.
But a surge in demand for DeepSeek since then has brought about outages on the small startup.
There have additionally been questions round how DeepSeek was capable of get hold of Nvidia’s H800 chips, used to coach AI fashions, though Washington had banned their exports to China.
OpenAI reported a twofold improve in developer site visitors for its reasoning fashions during the last six months and a fivefold surge for its o3 mannequin since its launch in late January.
The information about OpenAI’s weekly customers was first reported by CNBC earlier within the day.
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