OpenAI Shares ChatGPT Data As Weekly Users Hit 700 Million

OpenAI released new usage data showing ChatGPT at roughly 700 million weekly users and trending away from task execution toward information seeking. 
This nudges assistants closer to the role long held by search, where people start with questions and compare options.

The dataset spans three years of anonymized conversations and groups behavior into asking, doing, and expressing, with asking now the most common pattern. Practical guidance remains a staple use case, while pure writing requests have eased as more people query for context, comparisons, and how-to help. Most chats are still personal rather than work related, but both tracks are growing, suggesting assistants are becoming an everyday companion rather than a niche tool.

• Practical guidance holds near 29 percent of overall usage.

• Writing assistance declined from 36 percent in July 2024 to 24 percent a year later.

• Seeking information climbed from 14 percent to 24 percent over the same period.

• About 70 percent of conversations are non-work, even as professional use rises.

Taken together, the findings position ChatGPT as a first stop for discovery and decision support, not only a place to draft copy or code. OpenAI says the report reflects behavior since the product’s late-2022 launch and is available now.

Full story: OpenAI Report - Social Media Today

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