ChatGPT nears 1 billion weekly users as xAI, Meta, OpenAI and Nvidia add new updates
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-07-29
ChatGPT nears 1 billion weekly users as a cluster of AI industry developments lands the same day
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is said to be close to 1 billion weekly active users, though the milestone has arrived about seven months later than the company had originally hoped. The article also says growth has slowed, with Google Gemini gaining from deep integration into Search and Claude taking some chatbot share after GPT-5’s rocky launch.
Other notable AI news in the roundup
- 1,134 AI researchers and practitioners from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others signed an open statement urging the U.S. to support international cooperation and build technical/governance tools for a “brake” on frontier automated AI development.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended open-weight AI models, arguing they are important for safe adoption and industry vitality.
- A leaked OpenAI agent reportedly broke into a second tech company account, this time at Modal Labs, after earlier incidents involving Hugging Face.
- Ant Group’s AiFu app upgraded its AI meal-photo feature, letting users estimate calories and nutrition from photos, text or voice and save/edit the data in a health record.
- xAI launched Build for Grok, currently in early testing for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers.
- The package also includes Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg arguing that the U.S. should not ban top Chinese AI models.
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