data.ai: ChatGPT's total mobile installations have exceeded 110 million, and consumer spending has reached nearly $30 million

In contrast, ChatGPT may be the most low-key game changer ever.

There was no grand product launch, no grandiose vision for the future, and no one predicted that this would be a profitable product.

Neither OpenAI’s competitors nor the company’s founders could have predicted at the beginning that ChatGPT would become the fastest-growing consumer technology in history.

From startups to tech giants

In a year when venture capital has shrunk significantly, startups can easily obtain financing as long as they add the words "artificial intelligence" to their financing plans.

According to Pitchbook data, such companies raised $17.9 billion in the third quarter of this year alone. The industry's largest venture capital firms are actively raising billions of dollars in huge funds to pave the way for the next round of artificial intelligence investment frenzy.

In the wave of artificial intelligence investment set off by ChatGPT, new startups are born almost every day, and cool new products are launched almost every day.

Anthropic is quickly becoming one of OpenAI’s strongest and best-funded competitors, Midjourney’s image-generating AI is improving at an astonishing rate, and even just this weekend, startup Pika launched an impressive AI video-generating tool.

At the same time, on the other side of the technology world, the spring breeze of artificial intelligence has blown through the world's top technology giants.

As a partner and investor in OpenAI, Microsoft has placed a heavy bet on the new Bing search driven by artificial intelligence, while embedding its AI capabilities into flagship products such as Office, Windows, and Azure.

Google rushed out the Bard chatbot and enhanced its Workspace office suite with Duet AI.

This year, Amazon launched Alexa, a large language model (LLM), and Amazon Cloud Service AWS launched a full range of generative AI tools.

Meta now sees artificial intelligence as the key to the future, even beyond the Metaverse.

Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world thanks to its artificial intelligence chips. Even Apple, which is the most conservative company, has begun to talk about artificial intelligence frequently.

ChatGPT——The biggest winner of this round of artificial intelligence revolution

Although ChatGPT’s interface looks like a poorly designed chat tool and has been plagued by reliability issues, this has not stopped its wild growth:

It attracted 1 million users in just 5 days after its launch, and the number of users exceeded 100 million within two months. Now the number of active users per week remains at 100 million.

According to the latest market analysis provided to the media by mobile intelligence provider data.ai, the total installation volume of ChatGPT mobile terminal has exceeded 110 million, and consumer spending has reached nearly 30 million US dollars.

ChatGPT and the models behind it have quickly become the backbone of OpenAI’s multi-billion dollar business.

Over the past year, it has accomplished an almost impossible task: it is both a data supplier that profits from other companies that want to build products based on the GPT model; at the same time, it is also a popular consumer application, and users can use the Plus version for $20 per month.

Through the dual-wheel drive of consumer and corporate subscriptions, OpenAI achieves two-way charging of individual users and commercial customers.

data.ai said that compared to most music and streaming services, ChatGPT's subscription price is quite expensive, but over time, consumers' interest in access to the ChatGPT Plus version has driven subscription growth.

data.ai noted that within a week of its release on Google Play, ChatGPT’s Android downloads hit a record of 18 million new installs, a figure that has yet to be surpassed by any other mobile app.

Currently, the average weekly downloads for iOS and Android combined exceed 4 million times, and this growth momentum has been maintained for five consecutive weeks.