ChatGPT hit 1 billion users nearly twice as fast as TikTok did

ChatGPT's mobile app reached 1 billion monthly active users in three years, nearly twice as fast as TikTok's five-year climb to that milestone, according to Sensor Tower data. The OpenAI chatbot's user count now exceeds the combined monthly active users of rivals including Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok. The milestone underscores ChatGPT's rapid mainstream adoption following its late 2022 launch and subsequent mobile app releases in 2023.

ChatGPT hit 1 billion users nearly twice as fast as TikTok did It took Facebook and Instagram around eight years; it took YouTube just over six; even TikTok, which at the time felt like it was a global sensation https://sherwood.news/business/tiktok-joins-billion-users-club/ almost as soon as it arrived, took more than half a decade. Now, though, the mobile version of ChatGPT has positively left the biggest platforms and all of your other favorite apps in the dust, hitting 1 billion monthly active users in just three years , per new data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, as more users turn to OpenAI’s chatbot each month. While rival Anthropic might be pulling ahead in terms of annualized recurring revenue https://sherwood.news/tech/anthropics-revenue-continues-to-surge-shooting-past-openai/ , enterprise customer adoption https://sherwood.news/tech/is-openai-on-its-way-to-becoming-lyft/ , and valuation https://sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-in-talks-for-funding-at-a-valuation-as-high-as-950-billion-which-would-make-it-bigger-than-openai/ , the app version of Claude , a market-leading chatbot on several counts, has clocked only 56 million monthly active users in the quarter to date. In fact, according to Abe Yousef, a senior insights analyst at Sensor Tower https://sensortower.com/ , ChatGPT’s monthly active user count for the quarter to date outweighs the figures for Claude, Gemini 472 million , Doubao 106 million , Dola 78 million , DeepSeek 68 million , Meta AI 61 million , Grok 50 million , Perplexity 44 million , and Copilot 31 million ... combined . ChatGPT made a pretty big splash in the tech world when it landed toward the end of 2022 https://sherwood.news/tech/chatgpt-taking-the-tech-world-by-storm/ , but there’s no question that the mobile versions — which launched on iOS in May 2023 https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-chatgpt-app-for-ios/ , then on Android a couple months later https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/25/chatgpt-app-for-android-release.html — helped to catapult the chatbot into the mainstream proper.