As the focus of the ups and downs of the U.S. stock market, star company OpenAI announced on Wednesday that,Already 1 million companies around the world are directly using the company's services. According to the announcement, the statistical scope includes all organizations that actively pay for commercial use, as well as enterprises that directly consume the model through the developer platform. The company previously disclosed in early September that the number of users, including ChatGPT enterprise users and the campus version of ChatGPT Edu, exceeded one million.
(Source: OpenAI official website)
OpenAI also revealed that with ChatGPT’s weekly active users exceeding 800 million, the broad acceptance of the consumer market has also driven enterprises to adopt AI——Enterprise trial cycles are becoming shorter and shorter, and deployment resistance is getting smaller and smaller.
The company revealed that current business users of ChatGPT for WorkThe number of seats has exceeded 7 million.
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap previously revealed in August that,The number of seats at that time was just over 5 million. In other words, the paid B-side business of the AI leader has grown by 40% in just two months. Among them, ChatGPT Enterprise seats increased 9 times year-on-year.
In order to promote the purchase of services by enterprises, OpenAI launched a series of tools for the office environment this year, including a "corporate knowledge base" that can integrate "American DingTalk" Slack, Google Cloud Disk, and GitHub data for reasoning, and also provides a GPT-5 version optimized for enterprise collaboration environments.
OpenAI also revealed that the adoption rate of Codex models for code generation, refactoring and workflow automation has surged recently.Usage has grown 10x since August. OpenAI said that Cisco has introduced Codex into its development workflow and reduced code review time by 50%.
Other “typical user cases” include Carlyle, a well-known investment institution. OpenAI introduced that through the recently released enterprise intelligence construction platform AgentKit,Carlyle shortened the development time of the multi-agent due diligence framework by more than 50% and increased the agent accuracy by 30%.
Fidji Simo, CEO of the company’s application ecosystem, said,The most successful companies use AI to grow exponentially, not just cut costs. They launch new products faster and work on many great ideas that had been shelved in the past.
OpenAI also stated that in addition to purchasing AI services, more and more companies are also joining the ChatGPT ecosystem.
Companies such as Figma and Spotify have directly connected their applications to ChatGPT, and companies such as Walmart, Paypal, and Shopify have also directly provided shopping options to users of AI tools through ChatGPT’s agency business agreements.
OpenAI launched instant checkout in September, allowing users to complete purchases without leaving the chat window. ChatGPT takes a small commission from every transaction made through its website. Against the background that most ChatGPT users do not pay, the company has told investors that commercial revenue generated through those unpaid users will bring in $110 billion in revenue from 2026 to 2030.