ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users
ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users, OpenAI announced On Friday, the AI chatbot will come within striking distance of 1 billion. OpenAI also shared that it now has 50 million paying subscribers.
“Subscriber momentum accelerated significantly at the start of the year, with January and February on track to be the biggest new subscriber months in our history,” the company wrote in a blog post. “People use ChatGPT to learn, write, plan and build. As use scales, the product improves in ways people immediately feel: faster responses, higher reliability, greater security and more consistent performance.”
The new weekly active user figure marks a jump of 100 million users from the 800 million OpenAI reported in October 2025.
OpenAI shared the new figures as part of the announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding, marking one of the largest private funding rounds in history. The new financing includes a $50 billion investment from Amazon, along with $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, at a pre-money valuation of $730 billion. The round remains open and the company expects more investors to join.
