ChatGPT is approaching one billion weekly users, a milestone OpenAI originally targeted seven months earlier. The Information reports the service is nearing this user threshold as OpenAI releases new tools including Codex Security CLI and improved transcription models. This adoption milestone reflects ChatGPT's consolidation as a primary AI interface despite competition from alternatives like Claude and other agents.
OpenAI engineers shared optimization techniques used in ChatGPT and Codex to reduce the cost of agentic AI applications by improving efficiency across three layers: harness, API, and inference. Key techniques include using persistent WebSockets instead of repeated HTTPS connections, sending only delta changes rather than full context on each loop iteration, and managing GPU cache through speculative decoding and KV cache management. These optimizations reduce per-task costs significantly, allowing models like GPT-5.6 Sol to outperform competitors at lower expense.
ChatGPT reached 1 billion weekly active users, according to the company's announcement. This milestone was achieved approximately two years after the service's public launch in November 2022. The figure demonstrates the scale of OpenAI's user base and reinforces ChatGPT's position as one of the fastest-growing applications in technology history.
Revolut is bundling OpenAI's ChatGPT Go into its subscription plans for European customers, offering paid users between 3 and 12 months of free access depending on tier, while simultaneously removing Perplexity which had been included for over a year. ChatGPT Go normally costs €8 per month, and Revolut's customer base exceeds 75 million users. The move reflects how AI providers are acquiring European consumers through neobank partnerships rather than direct-to-consumer channels, with bundled access functioning as an extended trial that converts to paid subscriptions unless customers opt out.
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