OpenAI: In February 2025, the number of weekly active users of ChatGPT reached 400 million, an increase of 33% from December last year

Despite fierce competition from artificial intelligence models such as Deepseek, OpenAI's user base and revenue are still growing rapidly.

OpenAI executives revealed that as of February this year, ChatGPT has 400 million weekly active users, a 33% increase from 300 million users in December last year. Another company executive said that the company is expected to achieve $11 billion in revenue this year, which will be nearly three times last year's revenue.

OpenAI's revenue is expected to exceed $10 billion this year

It was reported in September last year that OpenAI expected revenue of $3.7 billion and a net loss of $5 billion in 2024. A source said the company then expected revenue to jump to $11.6 billion by 2025.

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar confirmed the forecast in an interview on Thursday, saying it was “within the realm of possibility” that the company could achieve $11 billion in revenue this year.

“We have managed to grow beyond our capabilities, both in terms of the computing equipment we buy and the way we invest, and have effectively grown into a hyperscaler,” she said.

Hyperscalers refer to large cloud computing companies that have a large number of data centers and can quickly scale to meet dynamic storage needs, such as technology industry giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta.

In response to questions about whether OpenAI will go public, he said that the company's growth rate has indeed attracted a lot of potential investors, and "the interest is incredible at the moment."

However, despite the rapid growth in revenue, OpenAI may still face losses for several years.

According to financial documents seen by The Information last October, OpenAI expects that the company will not achieve net profitability until 2029, when its revenue is expected to reach $100 billion. Before that, the company expects total losses to reach $44 billion from 2023 to 2028.

The number of weekly active users has grown to 400 million

On the same day, OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap said in an interview that the company's monthly active users reached 400 million, a 33% increase from 300 million in December last year.

Lightcap noted that ChatGPT will achieve “organic growth” as its functionality becomes more powerful and familiar to a wider audience.

“People heard about it through word of mouth. They saw how useful it was. They saw their friends using it,” Lightcap said. “Overall, people really want these tools and see that they are really valuable.”

Lightcap also said OpenAI’s enterprise business now has 2 million paying customers, roughly double the number it had in September last year.

He also mentioned that more and more developers are integrating OpenAI's technology into their own applications, which has also driven OpenAI's developer traffic to double in the past six months, with the use of the ChatGPT-o3 model increasing fivefold.

“We’ve also benefited from consumers’ acceptance of the ‘organic’ aspect of our products as people have become familiar with them… it’s definitely been a healthy growth on a different curve.”

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