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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by LeonM on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:31AM (#37643499)
They have been the fastest company ever to go from 0 to 100 million users. [0]

They are also on pace to exceed $1B in revenue. [1]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste...

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-passes-1-bill...

Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by blibble on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:32AM (#37643525)
both of those are either estimated or anonymous sources

not credible

Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by Closi on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:37AM (#37643600)
Well they are a private company so you are going to have to evaluate it on that basis, but reuters is generally considered credible.
Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by blibble on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:53AM (#37643831)
> Well they are a private company so you are going to have to evaluate it on that basis, but reuters is generally considered credible.

well that would be good if Reuters were the source of the figure

but they're not, they're simply reporting on what SimilarWeb has estimated

https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/#technologies

and that estimate is essentially based on nothing

Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by itsoktocry on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:56AM (#37643870)
Are either of those things indicative of "fastest growth ever"? Maybe 100 million users, but we live in a world where it's hard to know how meaningful that is (ie Tucker's X videos getting 300 million views).
Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by tomjen3 on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:38AM (#37645604)
MrBeast[0] has about 182m subscribers, and it is probably easier to get a subscriber on youtube than a user.

Views are easy to inflate, I wouldn't even consider it in the same ballpark. This video[1] of Vivaldis 4 seasons has about 1/4 billion views.

The shortest time to 100 million users is almost a definition of the quickest growing company.

[0]: first or second largest youtuber. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA