ChatGPT Revenue Surges 30%—in Just Three Months

Before today’s main column about the AI attention war between OpenAI and Google, there’s OpenAI news from my colleague Natasha: ChatGPT has hit 20 million paid subscribers, according to a spokesperson. 

That’s up from 15.5 million at the end of last year, as we previously reported.

It turns out a lot of people are willing to pay for a chatbot that can code, write, give personalized health advice and medical diagnoses and cook up detailed financial plans, among countless other tasks.

The strong growth rate suggests ChatGPT is currently generating at least $415 million in revenue per month (a pace of $5 billion a year), up 30% from at least $333 million per month ($4 billion annually) at the end of last year.