ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users, OpenAI announced Friday, putting the AI chatbot within striking distance of 1 billion users. OpenAI also shared that it now has 50 million paying subscribers.
Subscriber momentum accelerated meaningfully to start the year, with January and February on track to be the largest months for new subscribers in the company’s history. People use ChatGPT to learn, write, plan, and build. As usage scales, the product improves in ways people feel immediately, such as faster responses, higher reliability, stronger safety, and more consistent performance.
This new weekly active user figure marks a jump of 100 million users from the 800 million that OpenAI reported in October 2025.
OpenAI shared these new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised 110 billion dollars in private funding, marking one of the largest private funding rounds in history. The new funding includes a 50 billion dollar investment from Amazon, along with 30 billion dollars each from Nvidia and SoftBank, at a 730 billion dollar pre-money valuation. The funding round remains open, and the company expects more investors to join.