ChatGPT, the flagship product of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, now receives 2.5 billion prompts daily from users across the globe, the company told Axios, underlining the chatbot’s meteoric rise in digital engagement.
According to OpenAI, about 330 million of those daily interactions originate from users in the United States, making it the single largest national user base.
The data reflects the growing ubiquity of generative AI tools and their increasingly routine role in information search, productivity, and creativity.
OpenAI’s disclosure comes amid ongoing comparisons with search engine usage patterns, particularly Google. While Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, does not publicly release daily search figures, it recently stated that Google processes around 5 trillion queries annually—averaging nearly 14 billion searches a day.
Independent estimates from marketing firms lend credence to that figure. Neil Patel, of NP Digital, has estimated Google’s daily searches at 13.7 billion, while joint research from SparkToro and Datos pegs the number slightly higher, at around 16.4 billion searches per day.
Despite the dominance of traditional search engines, ChatGPT’s rapid growth trajectory is notable.
In December last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that users were sending over 1 billion prompts per day to the platform. The latest figures suggest the chatbot’s daily usage has more than doubled in just eight months.
The surge in prompt volume signals growing user reliance on conversational AI to fulfill tasks ranging from writing assistance and coding help to general queries and academic research.
The trend also illustrates the gradual convergence between AI-driven assistants and traditional search platforms, as major players like Microsoft and Google continue integrating generative AI into their ecosystems.
OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, has also expanded the availability of ChatGPT through enterprise tools and integrations in platforms like Microsoft Word and Excel. Meanwhile, its competition with Google’s Gemini and other emerging chatbots has intensified the race to dominate the AI-powered productivity and search space.
