"Have you asked ChatGPT today?" When this question becomes as casual as "Have you eaten?", OpenAI quietly released a set of numbers that could keep any product manager awake at night: ChatGPT receives 2.5 billion user instructions daily, which annualizes to 91.25 billion times, equivalent to 2,900 "dings" per second. If each query is imagined as a search, ChatGPT has already captured 18% of Google's annual search volume (50 trillion times), and this gap is closing at a visible speed.
More intriguingly, on the same day OpenAI published these data, they pushed a new feature called ChatGPT Agent to Pro users - it not only can answer but can also "take action". A battle about "from answers to actions" has thus begun.
Behind 2.5 Billion Queries: AI's "Water, Electricity, Gas" Moment
What does 2.5 billion times/day mean? It has pushed ChatGPT's weekly active users from 300 million to 500 million in half a year, with growth comparable to TikTok's most explosive 2018. American users contribute 13% of queries but support over 60% of OpenAI's paid revenue - the delicate balance between paywall and free experience is nakedly displayed by data. Compared to Google's 14 billion daily searches, ChatGPT's queries are "heavier": average dialogue rounds are 3.7, with a stay time of 4 minutes and 12 seconds, while Google's average session is merely 26 seconds. In other words, users are not "searching" but "chatting".
When querying becomes a habit, the next step naturally is "let AI do it for me". This is precisely the backdrop for Agent's entrance.
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