India becomes fastest growing market for ChatGPT due to viral Ghibli trend

Sam Altman previously stated that when ChatGPT was first launched three years ago, it took five days to reach one million users. However, last week, the platform was gaining one million users every hour.

India has now become ChatGPT’s fastest-growing market, driven by the recently launched image-generation feature that has gone viral online. According to OpenAI’s COO, Brad Lightcap, over 130 million users have created more than 700 million images within just one week.

“Very crazy first week for images in ChatGPT – over 130M users have generated 700M+ images since last Tuesday. India is now our fastest-growing ChatGPT market. The range of visual creativity has been extremely inspiring,” Lightcap shared in a post.

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Sam Altman in Ghibli Trend

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has previously lauded India’s swift embrace of AI, remarking, “What’s happening with AI adoption in India right now is amazing to watch. We love to see the explosion of creativity—India is outpacing the world.”

He also highlighted ChatGPT’s staggering growth, noting that while it took five days to reach one million users at launch three years ago, the platform was adding one million users every hour last week.

“The ChatGPT launch 26 months ago was one of the craziest viral moments i’d ever seen, and we added one million users in five days. We added one million users in the last hour,” read the post.

India’s rapid user growth aligns with ongoing discussions between OpenAI and Meta Platforms, both of which have reportedly engaged in separate talks with Reliance Industries about potential partnerships to expand their presence in the country, according to The Information.

One such possibility includes Reliance Jio distributing ChatGPT across India. Additionally, the report mentions that OpenAI is exploring ways to lower ChatGPT’s subscription fee from $20 per month to just a few dollars.

Although it’s uncertain whether this pricing strategy has been discussed with Reliance, such reductions could significantly boost adoption in price-sensitive markets like India.