ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, setting a record for the fastest app to reach a 100 million users, which it hit in two months. The implications of this tool are far-reaching, universities...

As of August 2024, Meta's Threads held the record among selected online platforms and services for reaching a total of 100 million users. The social media platform achieved the milestone in just two days. ChatGPT surpassed the 100 million user threshold in just two months, and video app TikTok surpassed the 100 million followers mark in nine months.

Annual users of ChatGPT worldwide are expected to grown considerably in the coming months. In 2022, around 57 million people used ChatGPT, with this number increasing to roughly 100 million by January 2023.

GPT-4 utilizes 1.76 trillion parameters with training costs over $100 million. Infrastructure requires 350,000 A100-equivalent servers with $700,000 daily operational costs.

As of December 2024, microblogging and social platform Threads was the fastest app to reach 50 million monthly active users (MAU) worldwide, as the apps took less than a month to reach the milestone. ByteDance-owned CapCut ranked second, as the app took four months to reach over 50 million global MAU. App ChatGPT ranked third, with the revolutionary generative AI application taking only five months to reach 50 million MAU worldwide.

Comprehensive comparison of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index vs. Context Window (Tokens) by Model

As of March 2025, Google represented 79.1 percent of the global online search engine market on desktop devices. Despite being much ahead of its competitors, this represents the lowest share ever recorded by the search engine in these devices for over two decades. Meanwhile, its long-time competitor Bing accounted for 12.21 percent, as tools like Yahoo and Yandex held shares of over 2.9 percent each. Google and the global search market Ever since the introduction of Google Search in 1997, the company has dominated the search engine market, while the shares of all other tools has been rather lopsided. The majority of Google revenues are generated through advertising. Its parent corporation, Alphabet, was one of the biggest internet companies worldwide as of 2024, with a market capitalization of 2.02 trillion U.S. dollars. The company has also expanded its services to mail, productivity tools, enterprise products, mobile devices, and other ventures. As a result, Google earned one of the highest tech company revenues in 2024 with roughly 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Search engine usage in different countries Google is the most frequently used search engine worldwide. But in some countries, its alternatives are leading or competing with it to some extent. As of the last quarter of 2023, more than 63 percent of internet users in Russia used Yandex, whereas Google users represented little over 33 percent. Meanwhile, Baidu was the most used search engine in China, despite a strong decrease in the percentage of internet users in the country accessing it. In other countries, like Japan and Mexico, people tend to use Yahoo along with Google. By the end of 2024, nearly half of the respondents in Japan said that they had used Yahoo in the past four weeks. In the same year, over 21 percent of users in Mexico said they used Yahoo.

Comparison of Represents the average of math benchmarks in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (AIME 2024 & Math-500) by Model

Comprehensive comparison of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index vs. Output Speed (Output Tokens per Second) by Model

Comparison of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index incorporates 7 evaluations: MMLU-Pro, GPQA Diamond, Humanity's Last Exam, LiveCodeBench, SciCode, AIME, MATH-500 by Model

Comprehensive comparison of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index vs. Output Tokens Used in Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (Log Scale) by Model

Comparison of AIME 2024 (Competition Math) by Model

Comprehensive comparison of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index vs. Seconds to Output 500 Tokens, including reasoning model 'thinking' time by Model

In November 2024, Google.com was the most popular website worldwide with 136 billion average monthly visits. The online platform has held the top spot as the most popular website since June 2010, when it pulled ahead of Yahoo into first place. Second-ranked YouTube generated more than 72.8 billion monthly visits in the measured period. The internet leaders: search, social, and e-commerce Social networks, search engines, and e-commerce websites shape the online experience as we know it. While Google leads the global online search market by far, YouTube and Facebook have become the world’s most popular websites for user generated content, solidifying Alphabet’s and Meta’s leadership over the online landscape. Meanwhile, websites such as Amazon and eBay generate millions in profits from the sale and distribution of goods, making the e-market sector an integral part of the global retail scene. What is next for online content? Powering social media and websites like Reddit and Wikipedia, user-generated content keeps moving the internet’s engines. However, the rise of generative artificial intelligence will bring significant changes to how online content is produced and handled. ChatGPT is already transforming how online search is performed, and news of Google's 2024 deal for licensing Reddit content to train large language models (LLMs) signal that the internet is likely to go through a new revolution. While AI's impact on the online market might bring both opportunities and challenges, effective content management will remain crucial for profitability on the web.

Comparison of Represents the average of coding benchmarks in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (LiveCodeBench & SciCode) by Model

Comparison of Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Model

Comparison of Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better by Model

Comprehensive comparison of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index vs. Price (USD per M Tokens) by Model

Comparison of Tokens used to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Model

Comparison of Context Window: Tokens Limit; Higher is better by Model