OpenAI Says Users Send ChatGPT Over 2.5 Billion Prompts Daily - 1

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OpenAI Says Users Send ChatGPT Over 2.5 Billion Prompts Daily

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager

OpenAI said ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion queries every day. Recent data suggests that, every year, users send around 912.5 billion requests to the chatbot.

In a rush? Here are the quick facts:

  • OpenAI said ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion queries every day.
  • A spokesperson confirmed that users send 912.5 billion requests to the chatbot every year.
  • ChatGPT increased its active users from 300 million in December 2024 to over 500 million in March this year.

According to The Verge , Rob Friedlander, a spokesperson from OpenAI, has confirmed that users send billions of requests daily. In the past few months, the number of ChatGPT users has increased significantly.

In December, OpenAI said ChatGPT reached 300 million users, and by March this year, the company said it had surpassed 500 million users.

Of the 2.5 billion prompts sent to ChatGPT every day—according to data shared by Axios—around 13%, or 330 million, come from users in the United States.

🦾NEW @OpenAI data on ChatGPT, breaking in @axios AM: • Globally, ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts each day • 330 million (13%) are from U.S. • Vast majority use ChatGPT’s free version @sama ‘s push to “democratize” AI’s economic benefits ⬇️ https://t.co/XPZ2HoUjDa — Mike Allen (@mikeallen) July 21, 2025

The impressive user adoption of ChatGPT in the past few months has sparked debate and raised questions regarding the future of online search and the dominance of tech giant Google. OpenAI announced a few days ago that it will release an AI-powered browser soon . This new platform is expected to compete directly with other popular browsers such as Google Chrome.

According to TechRadar , Google hasn’t disclosed its users’ daily search queries, but experts estimate that it can be around 14 billion daily searches—still significantly higher than ChatGPT’s 2.5 billion queries, but gained after decades of operation.

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has only disclosed that its search engine gets around five trillion queries per year.

Expert’s concern over OpenAI’s rapid growth for achieving long-term results is its sustainability, as the company has been struggling to become profitable. However, OpenAI has been implementing different strategies to remain one of the leading companies in the industry.

In May, OpenAI announced its final corporate structure , keeping its nonprofit entity as the controlling stakeholder and turning its for-profit arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs Under Dead Artists’ Names Without Permission - 2

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Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs Under Dead Artists’ Names Without Permission

  • Written by Kiara Fabbri Former Tech News Writer
  • Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager

Spotify is being criticised for uploading AI-generated music onto artist profiles of deceased musicians without any authorization from estates or record labels.

In a rush? Here are the quick facts:

  • Blaze Foley’s official page featured an AI song falsely attributed to him.
  • Lost Art Records called the song “AI schlock” and unauthentic.
  • Spotify removed the song after it violated their Deceptive Content policy.

404Media notes that in one example is Blaze Foley, as the deceased country singer-songwriter who met his death in 1989. The song “Together” appeared on the official Spotify page of Blaze Foley, yet used a generic male vocalist who played piano and guitar.

The music did not match any of Foley’s known musical compositions, according to fans. The page even included an AI-generated image of a man vaguely resembling a singer, but not Foley, as reported by 404Media.

“I can clearly tell you that this song is not Blaze, not anywhere near Blaze’s style, at all,” said Craig McDonald, head of Lost Art Records, which manages Foley’s catalog, as reported by 404Media. “It’s kind of an AI schlock bot, if you will. It has nothing to do with the Blaze you know, that whole posting has the authenticity of an algorithm,” he added.

McDonald noted, “They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so.”

The song was removed by Spotify since it violated their Deceptive Content policy, as reported by 404Media. The music track circulated through SoundOn, which operates under TikTok ownership to distribute content to various streaming platforms. 404Media reports that TikTok hasn’t commented.

Meanwhile, AI-generated music is making waves across the platform. A fully AI-generated band named Velvet Sundown recently made it onto Spotify’s charts with two albums before listeners uncovered that both the music, and band members, were all AI generated. As a result, experts are calling for clear labeling as AI music gets harder to detect.