[hatsuseno]

Yeah, that figure of a billion comes from OpenAI directly, I wouldn't put too much stock in its validity or relevance.

[SketchySeaBeast]

It also doesn't qualify how or how often the users use the app. Online games like to do this too - "40M registered users!" when the number of players with an active subscription are a tiny fraction.

[milkshakes]

it's weekly active users https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/