ChatGPT now has over 100 million weekly users from India, 18–24-year-olds send half the messages: OpenAI

OpenAI has released the latest data around ChatGPT adoption in India, where the company says that users aged 18-24 years old are taking the lead in adoption of its chatbot. The company also revealed that ChatGPT has surpassed over 100 million weekly active users in India and the country is the largest market for the company outside the US. OpenAI also revealed that India is the fastest-growing market for coding assistant Codex, which has experienced a 4x increase in weekly active users in the last two weeks.

In an announcement on Friday, the AI startup said that users aged 18-24 years old account for 50% of all messages sent to ChatGPT in India. The global average for the same group is around 33%.

The company also says that users aged between 18 and 34 years old now make up around 80% of all consumer messages originating from the country.

OpenAI says youth-led user adoption has amplified education- and early career-oriented use cases. The majority of the messages by younger users are related to practical guidance, technical help and self-expression, the company says.

Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist, OpenAI, on the adoption of ChatGPT in India said,

“AI adoption is moving faster than our ability to measure it – and that’s a challenge for anyone trying to make smart decisions. Signals is our way of putting real-world evidence on the table, so India’s AI debate can be grounded in facts, not hype.”

35% of Indians use ChatGPT for work:

OpenAI data has revealed that Indians aren’t just using ChatGPT for entertainment or experimentation, and the chatbot has quickly become a serious daily productivity tool. The data shows that 35% of all consumer messages to the chatbot in India are related to work-related tasks, which is higher than the global average of around 30%. The company says users at work primarily rely on the chatbot for editing, technical assistance and debugging, and accelerating workflows.

Outside of professional settings, nearly 35% of usage of ChatGPT in India is centred on seeking practical guidance, while general information and writing tasks account for about 20% each.

OpenAI also revealed that usage of ChatGPT for technical tasks is higher in India than the global average. The data shows that, compared to the global average, there is a 4x higher usage of ChatGPT’s data analysis tool among Plus and Pro users, 3x higher usage of Codex for coding-related tasks and a 3x higher likelihood to ask coding-related questions.

For coding-related tasks, the highest use of ChatGPT is in Telangana, followed by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu respectively