ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the primary time ever in June, in line with analytics firm Similarweb.
Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%. The period of time visitors spent on the web site was also down 8.5%, Similarweb data shows.
OpenAI didn’t immediately reply to request for comment.
ChatGPT set off a frenzied use of generative AI in each day tasks from writing to coding and reached 100 million monthly lively users in January, two months after its launch.
It’s the fastest-growing consumer application ever, and now boasts over 1.5 billion monthly visits, one in all the highest 20 web sites on the earth.
For example, ChatGPT has far surpassed Bing, the search engine run by Microsoft which uses OpenAI’s technology.
A number of ChatGPT competitors, including Google’s Bard chatbot, have been launched previously few months.
Microsoft’s search engine Bing also provides chatbot powered by OpenAI to users free of charge.
“I believe there are growing pains whenever you go from zero to 100 million users that quickly. The extraordinarily heavy infrastructure would lead to less accuracy. It’s a mix of getting to vary what the model is trained on and having to cope with the potential implications of regulation,” said Sarah Hindlian-Bowler, head of Technology Research Americas at Macquarie.
OpenAI also released the ChatGPT app on the iOS system in May, which could sap some traffic from its website.
Some also tie the usage change to the summer break for schools, as fewer students search for help with homework.
The recent slowdown in growth might help control the fee in running ChatGPT, which requires intensive computing power to reply queries.
Sam Altman, chief executive at OpenAI, has described the fee of running the services “eye-watering.”
ChatGPT is free to make use of but in addition provides a premium subscription, where users pays $20 a month to access OpenAI’s more advanced model, GPT-4.
Some 1.5 million people have signed up for the subscription, in line with the most recent estimates from YipitData.
OpenAI has projected $200 million in revenue this yr.
Besides ChatGPT, it makes money by selling API access to its AI models for developers and enterprises directly and thru a partnership with Microsoft, which invested over $10 billion into the corporate.
