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ChatGPT Reaches 800 Million Weekly Active Users as OpenAI Valuation Hits $500 Billion
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, up from 700 million in August and 500 million in March. The announcement came during OpenAI's Dev Day, where the company also unveiled new tools for building apps and agentic systems within ChatGPT. OpenAI recently became the world's most valuable private company at a $500 billion valuation and continues expanding with new products including Sora video generation and agentic commerce platforms.
Skynet Chance (+0.04%): Massive user adoption (800M weekly) and focus on agentic systems increases the surface area for potential unintended consequences and loss of control as AI agents become more autonomous and widely deployed. The rapid scaling and integration into everyday workflows creates more dependency and potential failure modes.
Skynet Date (-1 days): The accelerating user growth (from 500M to 800M in 7 months), combined with aggressive product launches including agentic systems and $500B valuation enabling massive infrastructure investment, significantly accelerates the pace toward scenarios involving autonomous AI systems. The 6 billion tokens per minute processing capacity demonstrates unprecedented computational scale being deployed rapidly.
AGI Progress (+0.03%): The exponential user growth and announcement of tools for building "complex agentic systems" that are "interactive, adaptive, and personalized" represents significant progress toward more general-purpose AI capabilities. The massive scale of deployment (6 billion tokens/minute) provides invaluable real-world training data and feedback loops.
AGI Date (-1 days): The $500 billion valuation and stated race to secure AI chips and build infrastructure, combined with 4 million developers building on the platform, creates unprecedented resources and momentum accelerating AGI development. The rapid product iteration (Sora, agentic commerce, new developer tools) demonstrates an accelerating development pace.