So OpenAI claims a user base of 180.5 million, with 1.6 billion "visits" in December 2023. Okay, 8.8 uses per user, seems low. Dig deeper, find a more recent $133M monthly revenues. $20/user, that's 6.5M paid users. Except a good bit of that's probably API charges, not direct users.
I mean, 6.5M paid users is a 35th of a Spotify, 163% of Notion, nothing to sneeze at, but...
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