OpenAI’s ChatGPT Nears 700M Weekly Users with New Image Generation Tool

ChatGPT nears 700 million weekly users, up from 500 million in March 2025. Growth boosted by GPT-4 image generation feature; 700 million images created in week one. Paid subscribers doubled from 3M in June to 5M; users average 12 visits per month. OpenAI said its ChatGPT chatbot will approach 700 million weekly active users this week. This record figure cements the product's status as one of the fastest-growing solutions in the world, according to its developers. ChatGPT is on track to reach 700 million weekly active users—up from 500 million at the end of March and four times its audience size last year. Every day, people and teams use it for learning, creativity, and solving complex problems. According to Nick Turley, vice president of OpenAI and head of ChatGPT, the number of users has grown significantly in recent months. He expressed gratitude to the team for making ChatGPT even more useful and fulfilling the mission to bring AI benefits to everyone. Turley noted that growth was further driven by the introduction of the image generation function based on GPT-4, launched in March 2025. OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that in the first week alone, users created more than 700 million images. The company also noted a rapid increase in paid business subscribers, which grew to 3 million in June and 5 million just last week. Analytics firm Sensor Tower highlighted that users visit the ChatGPT app an average of 12 times per month. This usage is higher than most mobile services and ranks the app second only to Google Search and the social network X (formerly Twitter). In the first half of 2025, ChatGPT averaged 16 minutes of daily usage, indicating the service has become firmly entrenched in users' daily lives. In July, OpenAI introduced a universal agent within ChatGPT that can perform complex digital tasks at the user’s command. The tool creates presentations, analyzes competitors, and assists in planning purchases based on information from connected apps like Gmail and GitHub.