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AI bot ChatGPT last month reached an estimated 100 million monthly active users just two months after its launch, making it the “fastest-growing consumer in history,” Reuters reported Wednesday, according to a UBS investment bank research note. application”. By comparison, UBS researcher Lloyd Walmsley said it took TikTok nine months to reach 100 million monthly users, and Instagram about 2.5 years.
“Twenty years have passed since we followed the Internet space, and we cannot recall the rapid adoption of consumer Internet apps,” Reuters quoted Walmsley as writing in a UBS memo.
UBS, whose data comes from analytics firm Similar Web, said about 13 million unique visitors used ChatGPT every day in January, doubling the number of users in December, according to Reuters. I’m here.
ChatGPT is a conversational Large Language Model (LLM) that enables near-human-level discussions on almost any topic. It reads context and answers questions easily, but may not be accurate (improving accuracy is a work in progress). After being released as a free public beta on November 30th, the GPT-3 powered AI bot has brought awe, amazement and fear to education, computer security and finance. It rocked the tech industry, prompted his $10 billion investment from Microsoft, and gave Google a flash of its life.
Also on Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Plus. This is a $20/month subscription service that gives users faster response times, priority access to his ChatGPT during peak hours, and priority access to new features. This is an attempt to keep up with the intense demand for ChatGPT, where sites often reject users due to overwhelming activity.
Over the last few decades, researchers have noticed a rapid increase in technology adoption as inventions such as telephones, televisions and the Internet take less time to reach vast numbers of users. I was. Will generative AI tools be next on that list? With a trajectory like ChatGPT’s, it’s entirely possible.
