ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT will reach 700 million weekly active users this week, the company announced Monday, cementing its position as one of the fastest-adopted software products in history just as the company prepares to release its most powerful language model yet. The surge is a 40 percent jump from the 500 million weekly users ChatGPT had at the end of March and marks a fourfold increase from the same period last year. The explosive growth rivals the adoption rates of platforms like Zoom during the pandemic and early social media networks, underscoring how quickly AI tools have moved from experimental to essential. This week,…