OpenAI Statistics, Facts & Trends For 2023

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OpenAI is one of the most advanced artificial intelligence research companies in the world. Founded in 2015 by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, OpenAI has made significant strides in the field of artificial intelligence. Here’s a look at some of the most up-to-date OpenAI statistics for DALL·E, ChatGPT, and GPT-3.5.

From its early days as an open-source research lab, OpenAI has grown into an organization with a mission to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.”

OpenAI’s research has focused on creating AI systems that can solve complex problems and interact with humans in natural language.

In particular, OpenAI has developed the DALL·E (images) and GPT-3 (text) models, which can generate images, stories, text, and code from simple prompts.

OpenAI, DALL·E, ChatGPT, and GPT-3.5 Statistics For 2023

Here’s a look at some of the most up-to-date statistics about OpenAI, DALL·E, ChatGPT, and GPT-3.5.

In May 2023, OpenAI was valued at $30 billion dollars. That makes it the 9th most valuable company in the United States.

Source: CNBC ^

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever. It was created to research and develop artificial intelligence technologies with a focus on safety and ethics.

In May 2023, OpenAI was announced to be worth $30 billion, , when OpenAI closed a $300 million share sale at a valuation of $27 billion to $29 billion. Microsoft also invested $10 billion in OpenAI in January 2023, which would bring its total valuation to $30 billion. That makes OpenAI the 9th most valuable company in the United States.

The most valuable companies in the U.S. are:

  1. SpaceX ($100 billion)
  2. Stripe ($95 billion)
  3. Klarna ($45.6 billion)
  4. Instacart ($40 billion)
  5. Robinhood ($32 billion)
  6. Airbnb ($30 billion)
  7. Databricks ($30 billion)
  8. Magic Leap ($29.5 billion)
  9. OpenAI ($30 billion)
  10. Unity Software ($28 billion)

OpenAI is projected to earn $1 billion dollars in revenue by 2024.

Source: Reuters ^


Reuters reports that OpenAI, the owner of the chatbot GPT-3, is projecting revenues of $1 billion by 2024, according to three sources familiar with the matter. It states that OpenAI plans to continue to invest in its artificial intelligence capabilities, develop new products, and seek partnerships with large companies and governments. The company is looking to build AI-powered services for a range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, and retail. OpenAI is also looking for potential investments to support its growth.

Microsoft is reportedly considering adding ChatGPT to its Bing search engine in 2023.

Source: The Guardian ^

The Guardian reports that Microsoft’s new ChatGPT natural language system can generate more engaging search results for its Bing search engine. The system uses a combination of AI and natural language processing to create conversations with users and provide them with more insightful answers. The system is expected to make Bing more competitive with other search engines like Google. Microsoft hopes that ChatGPT will improve user experience and help drive more traffic toward its search engine.

OpenAI has raised a total of $11.3 billion in funding since its founding in 2015, including $1 billion from Microsoft.

Source: Crunchbase ^

OpenAI has raised a total of $11.3 billion in funding since its founding in 2015, including a $1 billion investment from Microsoft in July 2019. The funding will help OpenAI continue to advance its mission of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI).

The company’s latest funding round was a Series E round on Apr 28, 2023, for $300M. Here is a breakdown of OpenAI’s funding rounds:

  • Seed round (2015): $100 million
  • Series A round (2016): $200 million
  • Series B round (2018): $600 million
  • Series C round (2019): $1 billion
  • Series D round (2020): $1.7 billion
  • Series E round (2023): $300 million

ChatGPT was launched on 30 November 2022, and it took just 5 days for it to get to 1 million users.

Source: Yahoo Finance ^

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, reported that ChatGPT gained 1 million users in just 5 days after its launch.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1599668808285028353

Here is how long it took other startups to get to one million users:

  • It took Twitter 24 months to reach 1 million users.
  • Facebook reached 1 million users in 10 months.
  • It took Dropbox 7 months to get to 1 million users.
  • Spotify hit 1 million users 5 months after its launch.
  • Instagram got to 1 million users in 3 months.

OpenAI’s Chat GPT3 passed a Wharton MBA exam

Source: Wharton School ^

A white paper by Christian Terwiesch, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, found that OpenAI’s Chat GPT3 would pass an exam in a typical Wharton MBA course.

He concluded that ChatGPT would have earned a solid B to B- grade and would have outperformed some humans on a Wharton course.

In January 2023, ChatGPT was banned in New York City public schools

Source: Wall Street Journal ^

WSJ reports that the New York City Department of Education has banned ChatGPT from being used in public schools due to concerns about cheating and plagiarism.

Educators fear that ChatGPT will make cheating easier than ever, as ChatGPT has the capability to write human-like essays and produce student homework.

New York City students and teachers can no longer access ChatGPT. The decision was made after a review of the program by the Department of Education.

34.32% of OpenAI (GPT-3, DALL·E 2 & ChatGPT) users are female, and 65.68% are male.

Source: Tooltester ^

The gender breakdown of users of OpenAI’s machine learning products is that 34.32% of users of these products are female, and 65.68% are male. Possible explanations could include differences in access to the products, differences in interest levels in the technology, or differences in the availability of resources to learn how to use it.

OpenAI’s DALL·E model has been trained on 12 billion images and can generate images from text prompts.

Source: OpenAI ^

DALL·E, has been trained on 12 billion images from the internet to generate images from text prompts. This means that users can provide a text prompt, such as “a smiling cat wearing a hat,” and DALL·E will generate an image of a cat in a hat smiling. This technology could be used for a range of applications, such as creating animated films or generating images for use in virtual or augmented reality.

Elon Musk is a co-founder of OpenAI but resigned from the board in February 2018.

Source: OpenAI ^

OpenAI was founded in San Francisco in late 2015 by Sam Altman (CEO), Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), Greg Brockman (President & Chairman), Wojciech Zaremba (Head of Codex research & language), and John Schulman (Head of reinforcement learning (RL)), who collectively pledged US$1 billion.

Does Elon Musk still own OpenAI? Elon Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, but citing possible conflicts of interest because of Tesla’s A.I. work, Musk resigned from the board in February 2018. Elon Musk is still a donor of OpenAI.

OpenAI is currently comprised of a team of 375 people spread across 7 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Israel, Singapore and India.

Source: Analytics India Magazine ^

OpenAI was started in 2015 by Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Elon Musk, and. John Schulman. Today it has grown to a team of 375 people that are spread across 7 countries and is working on various projects such as robotics, language processing, and deep learning.

In 2023, Microsoft is expected to include OpenAI’s Chatbot technology ChatGPT in its Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook Email.

Source: The Information ^

The Information says that Microsoft is looking to integrate OpenAI’s chatbot technology ChatGPT into its Microsoft Office and email products. This technology would allow users to have a more natural conversation with bots and make it easier for people to communicate with Microsoft’s services. Microsoft has already acquired a small startup called Lobe, which specializes in machine learning, to help them with this project.

GPT-4 is said to have ~1.76 trillion parameters, in comparison, GPT-3 has a capacity of 175 billion ML parameters, and GPT-2 has 1.5 billion parameters.

Source: The Decoder ^

GPT-4 is the next-generation natural language processing (NLP) technology from OpenAI, the San Francisco-based Artificial Intelligence laboratory. GPT-4 was officially launched on March 13, 2023, with a paid subscription allowing users access to the Chat GPT-4 tool. However, it is still not available to the public via OpenAI’s API. OpenAI has not yet announced when GPT-4 will be available to the public via API, but it is likely to be in the coming months.

GPT-4 is said to have ~1.76 trillion parameters. This makes it significantly larger than its predecessors, GPT-3, which has 175 billion parameters, and GPT-2 which has 1.5 billion parameters. This increase in capacity allows GPT-4 to process more complex tasks and generate more accurate results.

OpenAI’s GPT-3 model has been trained on 45TB of text and can generate text from simple prompts.

Source: OpenAI ^

GPT-3 is a natural language processing system that can generate human-like text from simple prompts. It has been trained on 45 terabytes of data, which includes a wide variety of text from books, websites, and other sources.

With this training, the model is able to comprehend context, identify patterns, and produce text with a similar style and tone to the text it was trained on. This gives GPT-3 the potential to be used for a variety of applications, from aiding authors and journalists to providing natural language interfaces for robots and other machines.

In August 2023, OpenAI’s website had 1.6 billion website visits, up from 266 million website visits in December 2022

Source: Similarweb ^

According to Similarweb, openai.com had 1.6 billion visits per month over the last 30 days as of August 2023. This is up from 1 billion visits per month in February 2023 and 266 million visits per month in December 2022.

As of April, 2023, the United States (13.07%) was the top country sending visits to openai.com, followed by Japan (4.28%) and Brazil (3.19%).

Source: SimilarWeb ^

Which countries contribute the most to the website openai.com’s usage? As of April 2023, the United States was the top country sending visits to openai.com, making up 13.07% of the website’s total web traffic. Japan was the second largest contributor, contributing 4.28%, and Brazil was third with 3.19%.

GPT-3 has been used to generate over 10 million stories and articles, including a full-length novel.

Source: OpenAI ^

OpenAI’s third-generation Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-3) is designed to generate human-like text from a given prompt. It has been used to generate over 10 million stories and articles, such as blog posts, news articles, and even a full-length novel. GPT-3 is seen as a major step forward in the field of natural language generation and has been praised for its ability to produce human-like text.

OpenAI’s research has been cited over 16,800 times in academic papers.

Source: Microsoft Academic Graph ^

OpenAI’s research has been published in many high-profile publications, including Nature, Science, and Nature Machine Intelligence, as well as in academic journals. According to a recent report, OpenAI’s research has been cited in more than 16,800 academic papers. This shows the impact of their research on the field of artificial intelligence.

OpenAI’s research has been featured in over 12,800 articles in the press.

Source: Google Scholar ^

According to Google Scholar, OpenAI’s research has been featured in over 12,800 articles in the press. This is a significant number of articles, and it suggests that OpenAI’s research is having a significant impact on the public consciousness.

The company’s research has been covered in both popular and scientific news outlets, ranging from The New York Times to Nature. OpenAI’s research focuses on the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its applications in the real world. The company has released several projects and products, including an AI-powered text generator and a robotic hand.

OpenAI has released over 800 public research papers and over 200 open-source projects.

Source: OpenAI ^

OpenAI has released over 800 public research papers and over 200 open-source projects which will be available to the public. These projects are expected to help advance the field of artificial intelligence and provide more insight into how AI works and how it can be used.

OpenAI has won numerous awards, including the Turing Award and the AAAI Classic Paper Award.

Source: OpenAI ^

OpenAI has achieved a great deal of success, earning numerous awards including the Turing Award, which recognizes significant contributions to the field of computer science, and the AAAI Classic Paper Award, which honors papers that have had a significant influence on the field of artificial intelligence.

The most recent awards OpenAI has received:

  • The 2023 Good Tech Awards for its work on GPT-4 and ChatGPT.
  • The 2023 MIT Technology Review TR35 Award for its work on artificial general intelligence.
  • The 2023 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award for its work on safe and beneficial artificial intelligence.

These awards are a testament to the work that OpenAI is doing to advance the field of artificial intelligence and to ensure that AI is used for good.

The average salary of an OpenAI software engineer is $925 000 per year.

Source: Levels.fyi ^

According to Levels.fyi, the average salary of an OpenAI employee is $925,000 per year. This is significantly higher than the average salary for software engineers in the United States, which is $105,000 per year.

The median age of an OpenAI user is 25-34 years old.

Source: NicolaRoza ^

The median age of an OpenAI user is 25 years old. This is according to a study by Similarweb, which analyzed the age distribution of OpenAI’s website traffic.

The study found that 30.09% of OpenAI’s website traffic comes from users between the ages of 25 and 34. The next most popular age group is 35-44, with 21.47% of website traffic.

The cost of running OpenAI is $700,000 per day.

Source: Business Insider ^

It is estimated that the cost of running OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model is around $700,000 per day. This is based on the amount of computing power that is required to train and run the model.

GPT-4 is a large language model and it requires a lot of computing power to train and run. The model is trained on a cluster of supercomputers, which costs a significant amount of money to operate.

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