OpenAI hits more than 1 million paid business users

OpenAI said on Thursday it has more than 1 million paying users across its business products, ChatGPT Enterprise, Team and Edu, as the AI firm’s chatbot continues to see strong adoption owing to its advanced large language model.

The figure is a rise from the 600,000 users it had in April, indicating that CEO Sam Altman’s push to get enterprises to adopt ChatGPT for corporate use is paying off.

Separately, the Information reported on Thursday that OpenAI executives have discussed higher-priced subscriptions for upcoming large-language models such as its reasoning-focused Strawberry and a new flagship LLM dubbed Orion.