The world's leading AI companies are showcasing significant growth in usage as the competition in the generative artificial intelligence sector intensifies.
OpenAI, renowned for creating ChatGPT, announced on Thursday that its iconic chatbot has more than doubled its usage since November, reaching an impressive 200 million active monthly users.
Meanwhile, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, revealed on Friday that the usage of its AI features across its platforms has surged to 400 million monthly users and 185 million on a weekly basis. CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg highlighted in a post on Threads that AI adoption by Meta's extensive user base is “growing quickly, and we haven't even rolled out in UK, Brazil, or EU yet.”
The company also reported that the usage of its proprietary Llama model on major cloud service providers has doubled between May and July following its latest update.
Amidst the escalating competition, there is significant pressure to demonstrate widespread adoption of ChatGPT-style AI chatbots given the substantial costs involved in delivering such technology. These impressive user numbers may help address concerns from a growing group of skeptics demanding more substantial and rapid revenue growth from AI chatbots and related tools.
Most companies leveraging AI models access them through leading cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Google, rather than installing them on their own servers. Llama, which is available for free, competes directly with models powering ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, which are offered to companies for a fee through these cloud providers.
Microsoft, which integrates OpenAI's technology into its AI tools, stated in its latest earnings call that usage of its Copilot chatbot by business customers increased by 60 percent in just three months. Additionally, Microsoft reported that overall web users have utilized Copilot to create over 12 billion images and conduct 13 billion chats to date, marking a 150 percent increase since the start of the year.
Google, despite being a pioneer in generative AI capabilities, has faced criticism for lagging behind its rivals in AI deployment and encountering errors. Last month, Google announced that its Gemini chatbot is now integrated across all its products, including Gmail and Google Maps. On Thursday, the company also reintroduced its AI image generator for Gemini's premium and business customers.
Earlier this year, Google suspended generating images of people after discovering that Gemini was creating diverse yet historically inaccurate images, such as Asian Nazis during World War II or a Black George Washington.
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