ChatGPT, a popular chatbot from OpenAI, is thought to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after it was released. This would make it the fastest-growing consumer app in history.

According to the report, ChatGPT saw daily usage of roughly 13 million unique visitors on average in January. This was more than twice as many users as there were in December.

'We can't think of a consumer online app that took off faster in the 20 years we've been observing the internet area,' UBS analysts wrote in the note.

According to data from Sensor Tower, Instagram took two and a half years to achieve 100 million users after its global launch, whereas TikTok took around nine months.

Also Read: Adani Is Addicted To ChatGPT And Says The Race for AI Will Be Hard

In response to user input, ChatGPT can generate a wide variety of text, including articles, essays, jokes, and even poetry. Late in November, a private company called OpenAI, backed by Microsoft Corporation, made it freely available to the general public.

On Thursday, OpenAI launched a monthly membership service that costs $20 and is initially only accessible to users in the United States. The company promised to provide a quicker and more reliable service and the opportunity to try out newly added functions in advance.

According to industry analysts' projections, OpenAI will have a significant competitive advantage over other AI companies if ChatGPT is successful. The ever-increasing use of OpenAI's chatbot puts a strain on the company's processing capabilities; however, it has also provided critical feedback that has been used to improve the chatbot's responses.

The company stated that the income from subscriptions would help defray the cost of computing.

The ease with which the tool can be used has given rise to worries over the possibility that it could encourage academic dishonesty and the dissemination of incorrect information.

The previous month, Microsoft made public a new investment in OpenAI for multiple billions of dollars, this time in the form of cash and cloud computing services.