3 November 2026

ChatGPT reports 1.2 billion weekly users, search near a fifth of Google's

First reported

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OpenAI says ChatGPT added 200 million weekly users in two months, reaching 1.2 billion.
OpenAI puts ChatGPT's search volume at roughly 20% of Google's.
For a new user, that means ChatGPT is now used by a large share of people as a place to look things up.

Our read

Only 1 of 30 newsletters covered this story, Big Technology, which first reported it on 2026-11-03. The archive also has a related item dated 2026-11-05 headlined "Open model usage grows fast; ChatGPT passes 1.2 billion weekly users.

Earlier on this story

Nov 5Open model usage grows fast; ChatGPT passes 1.2 billion weekly users
Nov 4Google will cut off Search for schools that block its AI tools
Nov 2Google's AI search features keep users on Google, cutting traffic to websites

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How it was covered

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User growth figures, search volume compared with Google and Bing, and how searches are counted