ChatGPT Is Eating the Internet: OpenAI Commands 80% of AI Market

Latest traffic data From Salingweb reveals the unpleasant truth about the generative market of AI: while in the world the discussion is that the AI ​​model is technically superior, Chatgpt has already conquered the war of adoption of users with the margin so huge that it defies conventional measurement information about competition.

With 5.5 billion visits in May 2025, Chatgpt command approximately 80% of all generative AI traffic. To understand this ladder: Chatgpt gets more visits from Google’s twins, Deepseek, Groka, Confusion and Claude. Then he doubled. Then add a few more millions for a good measure.

Chatgpt increased to 500 million weeks of active users at the end of March, and the Chatgpt Mobile application was already an average of more than 250 million active users between September and November 2024. Openai’s partnership He has certainly helped with Microsoft, but the scale suggests something more fundamental: Chatgpt has become a default assistant AI for hundreds of millions of users around the world.

What is particularly interesting is the resistance of chatgpta. Despite a brief immersion In traffic during the beginning of 2025. Openii quickly turned the trend, moving to new heights.

Chinese deep: neither disappeared nor forgotten

Another surprising data point: The Chinese Startup Deepseek-which is offered on most US devices that have issued a government and many institutions due to fear of its feeding information in China-have been made of 33.7 million monthly users in January up to 436 million visits to May. This is an increase of 13 times, which would make risk capitalists cry with salty tears.

Although Openi raised billions of dollars to accumulate as many GPUs as possible to encourage its models, deepseek acts on a fraction of costs Western models; His input tokens cost $ 0.55 compared to Openi’s $ 15. Feisty Upstart achieved this while forced to use fewer NVIDIA H800 chips due to export limit, computational equivalent of victory in Formula One race with Toyotin Coroll.

The geographical dominance of Deepseek talks about the story: Deepseek builds an empire in the markets that barely touched western AI companies. The best three markets, according to a similar web – China, India and Indonesia – calculate more than 51% of their users.

Best of the others: Google and Anthrop

For a $ 2 trillion company that processes 3.5 billion searches a day, Google’s AI performance is quite hiking. Gemini -I 527.7 million visits have barely expressed Deepsek despite any imaginative advantage: billions of financing, integration in Google’s ecosystem and approaching more users than any platform on Earth – plus monosor of AI browser and partnership with main brands to enhance models.

However, this should not be counted: the twins recorded 284 million visits in February, which means that the model is becoming in popularity – a good metric if it becomes a trend, given its current state.

Perhaps the most unexpected finding of Claude’s bad performance. Despite support from Amazon and Google, technical superiority in many reference values ​​and the constant praise of AI researchers and People in the AcademyClaude has drawn a little Less than 100 million visits In May 2025.

Claude had 18.9 million Monthly active users around the world since the beginning of 2025, and although the rush is definitely a large increase in traffic, these numbers fade compared to the billions of chatgpta.

An interesting interruption of the connection between Claude’s technical capabilities and the adoption of users. Claude 4 Opus achieved a better result than its competition on a complex reasoning and even creative tasks, but failed to translate it into a mass adoption, which once again shows that the best product is not usually the one who loves.

Although the meta AI exists, its current use as a primary AI tool can be significantly lower compared to Chatgpt. Many users do not currently gravitate to Zuck Chatbot as their preferred choice for tasks associated with AI.

A significant contribution to the target of the Open Code community, especially through its models of llam, is noted. However, the nature of open code use is different from the direct interaction of users.

Bloodshed on AI

While AI companies are fighting for position, traditional internet companies watch their empires fall apart. For example, Sallingweb reports that Chegg -Is traffic has overthrown 64%because students have found that Chatgpt provides better help with homework for free, Quora has fallen 51%, and free platforms like Fiverr Pale to 14%.

On the other hand, the tools to complete the devopes and code increased 41%compared to the year, the platforms for voice creation increased by 14%, and the automation tools jumped 12%.

Similar information data provides a brutal truth of AI industry: Technical superiority means little without the adoption of the user. Claude may impress the researchers, but Chatgpt impresses everyone else. Gemini can have Google’s distribution, but distribution without differentiation is not interesting.

Chatgpt won by being the first, good enough, and most importantly, to be what the users actually wanted – a conversational ai that just works. While the competitors focused on ratings of reference values ​​and security protocols, Chatgpt focused on use. 5.5 billion visits say the strategy operated.

Thus, Openi can lose in some standards, but in the race for global adoption he has already crossed the target line. Real competition is now for second place.

Edited Andrew Hayward