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 June 2025, more than **** million Poles were using ChatGPT.

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.

Among the major internet milestones that have appeared in the last few decades ChatGPT, as an online sensation, has been markedly faster at accumulating a million users than any other. This list of, albeit slightly different, major internet services and pieces of technology, demonstrates how quickly ChatGPT accumulated a userbase. While the two leading services discussed here, Netflix and Airbnb, were both competing with existing market structures, ChatGPT has few, if any, rivals in its capacity as a chatbot.

ChatGPT

As a chatbot service, ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm in recent days. Made by the small but successful startup OpenAI, also well known for their art generative artificial intelligence Dall-E, it has accumulated a large number of users and funding, as well as several controversies. Universities have been struggling to tackle essays generated by ChatGPT, with some in Australia claiming that a return to pen and paper might be needed.

iphone As Apple’s most successful product, the iPhone is one of the most heavyweight players in the smartphone market, with dozens of millions of iPhones being shipped every quarter. Indeed, when it comes to smartphone vendor share, Apple is the second largest smartphone vendor in the world after Samsung. Before ChatGPT it had been the phenomenon fastest to one million users.

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.

During a 2022 survey conducted among professionals in the United States, it was found that 29 percent of respondents belonging to Gen Z used generative AI tools. Moreover, 28 percent of Gen X and 27 percent of millennials respondents used such tools, respectively.

Generative AI

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) refers to algorithms that focus on producing new content, such as text, images, music, speech, code, or video. Generative AI is part of deep learning, the machine learning branch which aims to reduce the manual work of programming parameters for AI. Currently, researchers and developers use generative AI in various industries, like advertising and marketing, but rumors suggest that more businesses and consumers will adopt this technology in the near future to perform a wide range of tasks.

ChatGPT

An example of generative AI is ChatGPT, the famous chatbot software launched in November 2022 by the American startup OpenAI, which is also well known for its art generative AI program Dall-E. The chatbot can produce text based on given inputs, recognize mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT has quickly gained popularity, becoming one of the major breakthroughs of the last few decades in the technology industry. Indeed, it was the fastest IoT service to accumulate a one-million user base, in only five days.

Energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) models in training is considerable, with both GPT-3, the original release of the current iteration of OpenAI's popular ChatGPT, and Gopher consuming well over **********-megawatt hours of energy simply for training. As this is only for the training model it is likely that the energy consumption for the entire usage and lifetime of GPT-3 and other large language models (LLMs) is significantly higher. The largest consumer of energy, GPT-3, consumed roughly the equivalent of *** Germans in 2022. While not a staggering amount, it is a considerable use of energy. Energy savings through AI While it is undoubtedly true that training LLMs takes a considerable amount of energy, the energy savings are also likely to be substantial. Any AI model that improves processes by minute numbers might save hours on shipment, liters of fuel, or dozens of computations. Each one of these uses energy as well and the sum of energy saved through a LLM might vastly outperform its energy cost. A good example is mobile phone operators, of which a ***** expect that AI might reduce power consumption by *** to ******* percent. Considering that much of the world uses mobile phones this would be a considerable energy saver. Emissions are considerable The amount of CO2 emissions from training LLMs is also considerable, with GPT-3 producing nearly *** tonnes of CO2. This again could be radically changed based on the types of energy production creating the emissions. Most data center operators for instance would prefer to have nuclear energy play a key role, a significantly low-emission energy producer.