Platforms using generative artificial intelligence are seeing the number of their users increase continuously, according to the site Digital Trends. And the most popular of them is none other than ChatGPT. As of September 2024, it has recorded more than 3 billion visits worldwide, rivaling only Google Chrome’s monthly user count of 3.45 billion.
The graphic above was created and posted online on November 17 by the Canadian site Visual Capitalist. It is based on data collected by Similarweb, covering a period from November 2022 – ChatGPT launch date – to September 2024. It includes both desktop and mobile visits.
This tool developed by the American company OpenAI is a particularly visited website. In September, he was ranked eleventh in the world. A few months earlier, in May, ChatGPT had swapped its old domain name, chat.openai.com, for a new, more meaningful one, chatgpt.com. It appears that this change contributed to an increase in traffic at that time, allowing the platform to pass the milestone of 2 billion monthly visits, according to David F. Carr, the Similarweb researcher cited by Digital Trends.
Conversational agent and search engine combined
For comparison, the Google search engine receives more than 82 billion visits each month and YouTube, 28 billion, specifies Visual Capitalist. So there is still a little room before ChatGPT takes the lead. But OpenAi intends to continue its meteoric progress. In October, the company launched ChatGPT Search, a tool that can provide real-time data from the Internet in response to a prompt.
-ChatGPT does not search for information on the Internet, it is not a search engine. But ChatGPT Search offers completely new possibilities. This tool appears to be both OpenAI’s response to Perplexity – a platform that combines Internet search and a chatbot – and a pressure move on Google.
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