OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has set his sights on making ChatGPT one of the most widely used digital platforms in the world — on par with Google. In remarks following the rollout of GPT-5, Altman revealed in an interview that ChatGPT’s growth has accelerated at an extraordinary pace, quadrupling its weekly user base in just one year to more than 700 million people.
“Pretty soon, billions of people a day will be talking to ChatGPT,” Altman said. “We’re the fifth biggest website in the world right now. I think we’re on the clear path to the third.” That target would mean overtaking Instagram and Facebook, though Altman conceded that surpassing Google remains a much steeper challenge.
