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# ChatGPT now reaches 1\.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says

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**Published:** 2026-09-29T18:10:34.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** openai, llm

## Summary

OpenAI's annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3\. Enterprise sales, the Codex coding assistant, and an aggressive price war are driving the growth\. Anthropic is right on its heels with a similar run rate\. The article ChatGPT now reaches 1\.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says appeared first on The Decoder \.

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