The ChatGPT cellular surge continues to be in full impact.
Again in Might, we reported how customers had been flocking to the cellular app model of ChatGPT, primarily due to the introduction of a brand new mannequin, GPT-4o, that introduces quicker efficiency, multimodal capabilities, and a brand new voice mode.
Persons are nonetheless flocking to the app, because it pulled in $28 million in income in July – its greatest month ever.
The info comes from appfigures, which reported that the quantity is definitely after the Google Play Retailer and Apple App Retailer take their charges. Earlier than charges, ChatGPT’s take was $39.9 million. Figuring in a value of $19.99 a month, that works out to proper at 2,000,000 paid subscribers.
Appfigures factors out that income for ChatGPT was already rising properly this yr, however GPT-4o in Might precipitated a 40% soar. Whereas the GPT-4o mannequin was made obtainable to all customers, even free ones, it wasn’t free on the app model, resulting in a spike in subscriptions. The app hasn’t reached that share soar since, however progress has nonetheless been fairly robust.
Curiously, the overwhelming majority of ChatGPT cellular customers have Apple gadgets. Appfigures knowledge exhibits that the App Retailer made up 83% of the app’s income, a quantity that was up 20% from the prior month.
Earlier this yr, OpenAI teased a brand new superior voice mode that gives extra real looking interactions. The mode was set to roll out in June, however the firm mentioned it wanted extra time to enhance the mannequin’s capability to detect and refuse sure content material and to arrange its infrastructure to scale whereas sustaining real-time responses.
OpenAI nonetheless hasn’t deployed it absolutely. It is solely obtainable to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers.
The brand new voice mode can perceive and reply with feelings and non-verbal cues, OpenAI says, making the expertise much more like a pure human dialog. When that new mode absolutely rolls out, you need to think about the variety of subscribers will improve much more.