OpenAI, on a February 27, 2026 announcement post, reported continued growth across its AI platforms, with weekly active users of ChatGPT reaching 900 million and more than 50 million consumer subscribers. Based on previous The Information (via Reuters) reporting and our calculations, the number of paying subscribers increased from roughly 35 million in July 2025 to 50 million in February 2026, an estimated increase of about 15 million users, averaging roughly 433,000 new paying users per week over the period.
Codex, the company’s software tool for building software, now has 1.6 million weekly users, more than tripling since the start of the year. Over nine million paying businesses rely on ChatGPT for business functions including engineering, support, finance, and sales.
The company highlighted partnerships with Amazon and NVIDIA to support enterprise AI development, including dedicated inference and training infrastructure. OpenAI announced $110 billion in new investment at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, including $30 billion each from SoftBank and NVIDIA and $50 billion from Amazon. The valuation also increased the OpenAI Foundation’s stake in OpenAI Group to over $180 billion.
According to OpenAI’s announcement post, these partnerships and investments aim to bring frontier AI to more people, businesses, and communities globally.
Note: This post was improved with AI assistance and reviewed, edited, and published by humans.
Read next:
• Open Letter from Google and OpenAI Employees Raises Concerns About Potential Military AI Use
• People are overconfident about spotting AI faces, study finds
by Asim BN via Digital Information World
No comments:
Post a Comment