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ChatGPT

ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Monday
tech
chatgpt
passes the definition as
a transformer language model fit to text corpora and then to human preference data
from
2022-11-30
region
world
domain
knowledge
side
benefit
people
100,000,000 weekly active users (2023-11-06)
effect
— users (2023-11-06) — a general-purpose text assistant in weekly use twelve months after launch
reversible
yes
who holds the switch
owner:OpenAI
attribution
named
source kind
secondary
the statistic
Sam Altman announced 100 million weekly active users at OpenAI's first DevDay, 6 November 2023, alongside over 2 million developers on the API.
source
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/openais-chatgpt-now-has-100-million-weekly-active-users/
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2020-2023
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2020-2023.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:47-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 text/html; charset=UTF-8)
  2. 2026-09-06T09:59:36-04:00 · sessionseverity — an assistant: a convenience
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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