This week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly active users — up from 500M at the end of March and 4× since last year. Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems. Big week ahead. Grateful to the team for making ChatGPT more useful and delivering on our mission so everyone can benefit from AI.
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1/ Three years ago, we released ChatGPT as a public research preview at a time when similar AI systems mostly lived inside large companies. We did it because we believed anyone should be able to use advanced AI, not just a select few.
2/ Since then, people have used ChatGPT to learn new skills, build projects, start companies, and unlock creativity in ways we never anticipated. That’s what makes this work meaningful — the idea from the beginning was to put capability in people’s hands and see where they take it.
3/ Today, ChatGPT is the #1 AI assistant worldwide, with around 70% of assistant usage. New products are launching every week, which is great — it pushes us to move faster and keep raising the bar for what an AI assistant can do.
We’ve seen the strong reactions to 4o responses and want to explain what is happening.
1/ We’ve started testing a new safety routing system in ChatGPT.
As we previously mentioned, when conversations touch on sensitive and emotional topics the system may switch mid-chat to a reasoning model or GPT-5 designed to handle these contexts with extra care. This is similar to how we route conversations that require extra thinking to our reasoning models; our goal is to always deliver answers aligned with our Model Spec.
2/ Routing happens on a per-message basis; switching from the default model happens on a temporary basis. ChatGPT will tell you which model is active when asked.