OpenAI announced Friday that ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users, bringing its AI chatbot within reach of 1 billion people. OpenAI also shared that it currently has 50 million paying subscribers.
“Subscriber momentum has accelerated significantly since the start of the year, and January and February are expected to be the largest months for new subscribers in our history,” the company said in a blog post. “People use ChatGPT to learn, create, plan, and build. As usage grows, the product improves in ways that people instantly feel: faster response, higher reliability, stronger security, and more consistent performance.”
The new weekly active user count represents an increase of 100 million users from the 800 million users reported by OpenAI in October 2025.
OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding, one of the largest private funding rounds in history. The new funding includes a $50 billion investment from Amazon and $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, giving the company a pre-money valuation of $730 billion. This round is still open and the company expects more investors to participate.
