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Standalone AI apps now have over 1 billion users chatgptCloud and Google Gemini, according to a new report.
This milestone comes less than three years after OpenAI released ChatGPT, which became the fastest-growing app in history after its launch in November 2022.
“AI is ‘crossing the chasm,’ expanding from early adopters to the mass market,” says the Digital 2026 report, conducted by consumer intelligence firm Meltwater and creative agency We Are Social.
The 700-page report says this trend is having a wide-ranging impact on the rest of the InternetThe number of people using traditional search engines is now declining.
Data analyst Simon Kemp said, “AI is increasingly enabling users to answer a wider variety of questions and meet a far broader range of needs than search engines alone.”
AI adoption rates are largely driven by ChatGPT, which exists for almost 800 million users According to OpenAI boss Sam Altman.
That’s up from about 250 million users this time last year, and puts it ahead of Elon Musk’s X, which has about 586 million users according to data collected by Statista.
Researchers from OpenAI, Duke University and Harvard University noted in a paper last month that about 10 percent of the world’s adult population now uses ChatGPT.
“For a new technology, this speed of global spread has no precedent,” he wrote.
A separate report from the Pew Research Center, published Wednesday, found that more people are concerned artificial intelligence More excited than.
The survey polled more than 28,000 people across 25 countries, revealing that only 16 percent are more excited than concerned about the technology.
“Concerns about AI are particularly common in the United States, Italy, Australia, Brazil, and Greece, where nearly half of adults say they are more concerned than excited,” the report’s authors wrote.
“The survey found a strong correlation between a country’s income – as measured by GDP per capita – and awareness of AI. People in higher-income countries are more likely to have heard about AI than those in less wealthy economies.”