> 5 days ago: 7M users

> 4 days ago: 8M users

> 3 days ago: 9M users

That's some incredible growth.

lekevicius 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

tbf they turned previous ChatGPT macOS app into Codex, so getting a "new" Codex user might mean someone using ChatGPT just updated their app.

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ozgung an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Numbers are for Codex AND ChatGPT Work users. So if a ChatGPT subscriber tries Work tab they must be counted as a new active user. So it’s not like 1M new developers daily.

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an0malous 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t even know what Codex is anymore and at this point I’m too afraid to ask. I remember the days when it was a VSCode extension.

Didn’t they also name their new hardware product Codex?

	▲	brookst 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, they’re following the Microsoft strategy of “if you name everything Copilot, you can report high Copilot usage”
	▲	woadwarrior01 20 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		To me, it's the cli.

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ayuhito 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have an inkling of a feeling that this generosity is a stunt only to help juice the growth and “story” specifically for the IPO…

Best use the AI subsidies while you can!

	▲	Verdex 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which seems a bit off to me. Can they even ipo right now due to the apple business? Although I don't think you're wrong. The number of "organic" social media posts I've seen in the past few weeks of the form: 'Wow, Anthropic users are ugly losers...nothing like those handsome openai tiger blood winner sages' is simply too high in my mind for anything other than an ipo prelude. [Also are altman and musk really fighting on x? Like, that's got to be a sign of some sort of internal stressors right?]

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sebjones 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was thinking about this. How do they measure this? Every upgrade of the ChatGPT apps get counted?

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monster_truck 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They, like every startup ever, count users in a very stupid way.

One person using the app on two computers and a phone? That's obviously 3 users.

Growth Hackers and SEO types have done so much to make the world an insufferable place. I congradulate them on the OpenClaw psyop, that was some very inspired bullshit that did fuck all and is now irrelevant.

	▲	solumunus 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Such a counting method doesn’t explain that incredible growth. Do you think day by day huge portions of users are using additional devices in perpetuity?

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rvz 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They just merged the ChatGPT app and the Codex app into one super app.

It is a clever growth hack.

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ipsum2 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I would expect them to grow faster than 1 million users a day in that case, since chatGPT has almost a billion users. Maybe everyone's just using the web app or mobile?

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8n4vidtmkvmk 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was using the web app. Don't see any reason to use anything else for basic chat. Not having access to my computer is a feature

	▲	mvkel 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As someone who just used computer use to successfully perform a "change of address" across 52 different services, hard disagree. It's magic.

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fatata123 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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