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More on that later. First, a look into ChatGPT\u2019s dominance and how most folks are engaging with it.<\/p>\n
In India, as in the US and Brazil, the large language model-based chatbot is mostly used on mobile devices, per new reports by data.ai (formerly App Annie) and writerbuddy.ai.<\/p>\n
In the AI tools sector, ChatGPT registered about 14.6 billion visits, averaging 1.2 billion visits every month, writerbuddy.ai, an AI-based writing platform, said in a 15 November study.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the top 50 AI platforms that writebuddy.ai analysed, including Google Bard, ChatGPT cornered a 60% share of the traffic.<\/p>\n
Mobile devices are the preferred means of access for 58% of ChatGPT\u2019s users, according to writerbuddy.ai, and about 74.16% of them are male, making for a significant gender disparity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ChatGPT\u2019s competitors including Perplexity AI and Character AI account for 18.69% of the chatbot market\u2019s monthly visits, the report says. Despite the competition, ChatGPT dominates the AI tools sector with average usage duration of 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT is the most-popular AI tool in the US, followed by India and Brazil, according to the writerbuddy.ai study.<\/p>\n
But as per analytics platform data.ai, India accounted for the most ChatGPT app installations globally (18%), just ahead of the US (17.5%). Data.ai in its 1 December report added that ChatGPT\u2019s mobile version had achieved 110 million downloads, and generated about $28.6 million in global consumer spending. Within one week of being launched on Google Play, the app hit a record weekly adoption of about 18 million new installations.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT downloads on both Apple\u2019s iOS and Google\u2019s Android platforms combined were at above 4 million in the five weeks to 1 December, according to data.ai. The platform, it added, ranks first among generative AI apps in terms of total downloads, outpacing competitors such as Character AI and Ask AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But in terms of consumer spending, ChatGPT ranks second, outmatched by Ask AI from Codeway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ChatGPT Plus is the sole in-app purchase for the ChatGPT app, and with its recurring subscription billed at $19.99 per month, it is \u201cgreater than many music and streaming services”, according to data.ai.<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s one-year journey has been anything but smooth. While ChatGPT took the online world by storm garnering more than 100 million users in its first two months, OpenAI\u2019s board shocked the world when it unceremoniously sacked CEO Sam Altman last month, only for him to be reinstated within a fortnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the drama unfolded, OpenAI\u2019s estimated $86-billion valuation came under a cloud. Microsoft chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella, worked at a frenetic pace to protect his company\u2019s more than $11-billion investment in OpenAI. He almost got Altman to lead a new AI unit at Microsoft. The tech giant is now on the board of OpenAI as a \u201cnon-voting observer”, which will give it visibility of the board\u2019s decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nadella reportedly was informed just a minute before the world knew about Altman\u2019s ouster, despite Microsoft having a 49% stake in the for-profit entity that the OpenAI nonprofit board controls.<\/p>\n
Altman\u2019s sacking on 17 November was apparently over\u00a0concerns<\/a> about the safety and speed of OpenAI\u2019s tech deployment, which ostensibly unsettled some board members including Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and OpenAI\u2019s chief scientist. Some fear that ChatGPT could herald the onset of artificial general intelligence (AGI)\u2013one of the reasons for Sutsekever\u2019s differences with a techno-optimist like Altman.<\/p>\n