OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

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OpenAI's ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly users and doubles enterprise adoption to 2M+ users, signaling major AI shift as company prepares GPT-5 launch amid growing competition from DeepSeek and xAI.Read More

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