Many had given it to be passed off from the entrance to the Chinese DeePseek app, but to look at the numbers the feeling is completely different. The company led by Sam Altman, in fact, announced that its chatbot, chatgpt, at the end of February exceeded the figure of 400 million active users weekly. Just two months ago, the number was stopped at 300 million. According to CNBC, from September, company members who use chatgpt are also doubled: arrived at 2 million in February.
Openii also underlined a peak of the use of the programming interface of its artificial intelligence services, the so -called “bees”, which allow developers to integrate the chatgpt skills in applications, websites and services. The use of the latest ‘O3’ model has fifted from the launch of late January for the purpose of development projects. The statistical update arrives in a crucial moment for the AI sector, a few weeks after the emergence of Deepseek, the Chinese startup that claims to have created a reasoning model, Deepseek R1, capable of rivaling with western ones, ad A lower price for training and inference. A few days ago, the Deepseek systems went haywire, according to the company because of an external computer attack. Yesterday, the former opera of Openii, Mira Murati, launched its artificial intelligence startup, Thinking Machine Lab, with former Google employees and Meta.
The artificial intelligence market is experiencing an increasingly intense competition. So much so that – according to Kpmg – in the fourth quarter of 2024 global investments in venture capital reached 108.6 billion dollars, with a significant part intended for companies focused on artificial intelligence.
According to Bain, the forecasts indicate that the global AI market could reach a value between 780 and 990 billion dollars by 2027, with an annual growth between 40 and 55 percent. Although with lower figures, even in Italy this AI market has grown with a good step: in 2024 it reached 1.2 billion, growing 58% on the previous year.