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OpenAI has launched GPT-5, making it available to users upon the release of the podcast.
ChatGPT currently has 700 million weekly active users.
OpenAI's GPT-5 model achieves state-of-the-art performance on academic benchmarks for math, reasoning, and broad intelligence.
GPT-5 demonstrates a significant, step-change improvement in coding capabilities, particularly in front-end development and on benchmarks like SWE-bench.
OpenAI is making its new GPT-5 model available for free to all users.
Approximately 10% of the world's population uses ChatGPT on a weekly basis.
OpenAI has approximately 5 million business customers for its ChatGPT products.
OpenAI's long-term vision for ChatGPT is to create a 'super assistant' that has deep context about a user's life and goals, and can take actions on their behalf.
The OpenAI platform has approximately 4 million developers.
The initial concept and codebase for ChatGPT originated from an internal hackathon at OpenAI.
ChatGPT exhibits a 'smiling curve' retention pattern, where user retention improves over time even as cohorts become less composed of early adopters.
OpenAI determined the $20/month price point for ChatGPT Plus by using a Google Form survey based on the Van Westendorp method, which was distributed to its Discord community.