microsoftbacked artificial intelligence research startup openai launched the ai chatbot chatgptin november 2022 since its launch the chatbot has gone viral for its ability to process prompts and deliver humanlike writings including essays articles jokes job applications and even poems according to a report by reuters analysts have said that the popular ai chatbot has reached 100 million users within two months of its releaseread alsogoogle may introduce chatgpt competitor in maytech giant google is preparing to introduce at least 20 artificial intelligence aipowered tools and a search chatbot during its annual developer conference in may this year amid pressure from openais chatgpt the media reportedas per the report an analysis conducted by data firmsimilarweb claims that in january chatgpt had about 590 million visits from 100 million unique users meanwhile analysts at the investment bank ubs stated that the rate of growth was unprecedented for any consumer appchatgpts growth compared to other platformsthe report adds that the ubs analysts have written a note to mention that they cannot recall a faster ramp in a consumer internet app in the last two decades to compare tiktok needed nine months since its launch to reach 100 million users while instagram required over two years to achieve the feat this data was sourced from an app analysis firm named sensor toweranalysts also believe that the viral launch of chatgpt will give openai a headstart against other aibased companies the growing usage is not only imposing significant computing expenses on openai but has also offered important feedback that will help the chatbot to train responses other services from chatgptopenai has also developed the aipowered image generator tool named dalle the company mainly focuses on generative ai which is a technology trained with huge amounts of text and images and can create content from a simple text promptchatgpt plus what is itthe microsoftbacked startup also recently announced a 20 monthly subscription for chatgpt initially this subscriptionbased service was launched only for users in the us the paid version of chatgpt claims to provide a more stable and faster service moreover paid users will also have the opportunity to become the first ones to try out new features microsofts investment in openai last month microsoft has announced another multibilliondollar investment in openai the investment was made in the form of cash and assistance with cloud computing microsoft has also launched a premium version of its teams platform which is backed by chatgpt this platform offers aipowered features like automaticallygenerated meeting notes and more the tool even divides recaps of meetings into sections which are based on the meeting transcriptalso watchis chatgpt the google killer openai chatgpt