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OpenAI’s ChatGPT has reached a jaw-dropping new milestone: it now processes more than 2.5 billion prompts daily across the globe, marking a huge leap in how deeply generative AI has embedded itself into everyday life.
When ChatGPT first launched in November 2022, it captured the world’s attention as a curiosity. Fast forward to today, and it’s now a global productivity powerhouse, rivaling the likes of Instagram and Threads in terms of explosive user growth.
According to OpenAI’s latest figures shared with Axios, the chatbot’s daily prompt count has surged from 1 billion in December 2024 to 2.5 billion today. That translates to more than 1.7 million prompts every minute, or nearly 29,000 prompts per second. The U.S. alone contributes around 330 million of those daily queries.
ChatGPT vs Google: Different Beasts
While the total daily prompts are still dwarfed by Google Search’s 14 billion daily queries, the two platforms serve fundamentally different purposes. Google delivers links; ChatGPT provides context, support, and action. It helps people solve problems on a deeper, personal level which Google has yet to replicate effectively.
A Central Role in the Digital Ecosystem
From casual users to professionals and developers, people are increasingly relying on ChatGPT as their go-to AI assistant. It’s not just reshaping search, it’s revolutionizing how we engage with the internet.
Giants like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and a flood of AI startups are fiercely competing to dominate the space, each investing billions into AI productivity tools and advanced models.
AI’s Growing Pains and Legal Pushback
With great growth comes controversy. Many generative AI models, including ChatGPT, have been trained on vast swaths of content, often without clear licensing. A backlash from creatives, publishers, and copyright holders will now push OpenAI and others to now strike licensing deals to calm the storm.
