OpenAI is out ChatGPT in November 2022 and immediately experienced revolutionary growth that triggered a worldwide chain of innovation in artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence chatbot set the record for fastest growing user base, reaching 100 million active users in January, just two months after launch.
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Growth has remained steady since then, with the user base reaching nearly 200 million active users by May 2023. ChatGPT saw its first drop in monthly traffic and visitor numbers in June, as explained by a report from Similarweb.
Total monthly visits from desktop and mobile web worldwide. Blog Sameweb/ZDNET
According to a report by the analytics firm, worldwide desktop and mobile web traffic dropped 9.7% from May to June and 10.3% in the US alone. . According to reports, users also spend less time on the site as the amount of time visitors spend on chat.openai.com has decreased by 8.5%.
According to David F. Carr, senior director of insights at Similarweb, the drop is a sign that interest in ChatGPT has declined and the novelty of AI chat is gone. “Chatbots will have to prove their worth, rather than take it for granted, from here on out,” Carr wrote in the report.
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As ChatGPT’s popularity explodes, speculations that AI and artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT might someday alternative search engine. But Google has about 84 billion monthly visitors compared to ChatGPT’s current 1.8 billion last reported in April. For reference, Bing, holds only about 3% search engine market share compared to 93% of Google, there are more than 1.1 billion recorded users.
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OpenAI added Sign up for ChatGPT Plus with his business model after Sam Altman described the free ChatGPT platform as rendering “incredible computational cost”and other companies that have used the company’s technology to their benefit.
Microsoft partners with OpenAI for integration GPT-4 in Bing chat and use it to create a smarter, AI-powered search engine in chatbot format. Traffic to the OpenAI developer site grew 3.1% from May to June, according to the same analytical report from Similarweb.
