85+ OpenAI Statistics For 2023 (Data, Revenue & Traffic)

OpenAI is a leading research organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence in a responsible and beneficial manner. 

OpenAI conducts groundbreaking research across a wide range of AI-related topics, from language models and computer vision to reinforcement learning and robotics. 

In this article, we will delve into the world of OpenAI statistics and explore some of the important research being done in this field by OpenAI. 

Whether you are a seasoned data scientist or just starting out in the world of AI research, this article will provide a fascinating glimpse into the cutting-edge work being done by OpenAI. 

OpenAI Statistics (Top Picks)

1.  The value of OpenAI was $29 billion as of January 2023.

2. With a $29 billion value, OpenAI is the 6th most valued company in the United States as of January 2023.

3. OpenAI has raised $1.9 billion in funding since its launch in 2015. 

4.  63 companies with less than ten employees use OpenAI.

5.  “chatgpt” is the top keyword search on openai.com, with 32.50 million searches as of 2023.

6. ChatGPT’s revenue is expected to reach $200 million by the end of 2023.

7. The monthly cost of running ChatGPT is $ 3 million.

8. GPT-3 owner projected the revenue $1 billion by 2024 of GPT-3.

9. DALL.E 2 took 2.5 months to reach 1 million subscribers after its launch in 2022. 

10. OpenAI Five’s win rate is 99.4%.

11. OpenAI claimed that OpenAI Codex functions in more than 12 programming languages.

12. OpenAI expects $200 million in revenue by the end of 2023. 

13. The United States contribute 15.64% of the total traffic received by OpenAI.

14. 34.82% of the total traffic comes from the age group of 25 to 34 years old users.

15. Christopher Olah was the highest-paid employee of OpenAI with $286073 in 2020. 

Overview of OpenAI

OpenAI is a research organization founded in 2015 with a mission to advance artificial intelligence in a safe way for all.

OpenAI quickly became one of the most influential and respected organizations in the field of AI research, with a team of world-class researchers and engineers working on a wide range of projects.

 In this section, we will get a short glimpse of the overview of OpenAI.

Overview	Key Information
Key People	Sam AltmanTrevour BlackwellGreg BrockmanVicki CheungElon Musk
Founded on	11th December 2015
Headquarter	San Francisco, US
Industry	Artificial Intelligence
Number of employees	375+ as of January 2023
Valuation	$29 billion as of January 2023
Total Funding	$1 billion+
Website	opeonai.com

Source: Usesignhouse, OpenAI

Key Highlights of OpenAI from 2015 to the 2023

Over the past eight years, OpenAI has made numerous groundbreaking contributions to the field of AI, from developing state-of-the-art language models to advancing robotics and computer vision.

In this section, we will provide an overview of the key highlights of OpenAI’s work from 2015 to 2023.

Year	Key Highlights
2015	Introduced OpenAI (11th December 2015)
2016	OpenAI Gym Beta (27th April 2016)Universe (5th December 2016)
2017	Proximal Policy Optimization (20th July 2017)Dota 2 (11th August 2017)
2018	Prepared for Malicious Uses of AI (20th February 2018)OpenAI charter (9th April 2018)Learning Dexterity (30th July 2018)
2019	GPT-2 (14th February 2019)OpenAI LP (11th March 2019)OpenAI Five Defeats Dota 2 World Champion (15th April 2019)MuseNet (25th April 2019)Microsoft invested in OpenAI (22nd July 2019)GPT-2:1.5B released (5th November 2019)
2020	Jukebox (30th April 2020)OpenAI API (11th June 2020)
2021	CLIP (5th January 2021)DALL.E (5th January 2021)OpenAI Codex (10th August 2021)
2022	DALL.E2 (6th April 2022)ChatGPT (30th November 2022)

Source: OpenAI

General OpenAI Statistics

16. The value of OpenAI was $29 billion as of January 2023.

17. With a $29 billion value, OpenAI is the 6th most valued company in the United States in January 2023.

Here is a table showing the most valued companies in the United States As of January 2023.

Company	Value
SpaceX	$137 billion
Stripe	$74 billion
Epic Games	$32 billion
Databricks	$31 billion
Fanatics	$31 billion
OpenAI	$29 billion

18. In the secondary share sale, OpenAI was valued at $20 billion in 2022. 

19. We can access OpenAI from 156 nations.

20. Microsoft has invested $1 billion in OpenAI.

21. OpenAI has raised $1.9 billion in funding since its launch in 2015. 

22. OpenAI is the leading machine learning startup in the world, with funding raised in 2023.

Here is a table showing the leading top 10 startups by funding raised in 2023.

Leading Startup	Funding raised
OpenAI	1010.12 million
Scale AI	602.86 million
Anyscale	259 million
Inflection AI	225 million
Weights & Biases	200 million
Cohere.ai	165 million
Hugging Face	160 million
OctoML	132 million
AI21 Labs	119 million
Instadeep	113.65 million

23. Companies with an employee count of 10000 and more use OpenAI the most. 

24. 63 companies with less than ten employees use OpenAI.

Here is a table showing the companies that are using OpenAI by employee strength.

Employee strength	Number of companies that use OpenAI
Below 10	63
10 to 49	89
50 to 199	91
200 to 499	56
500 to 999	45
1000 to 5000	139
5000 to 10000	70
Above 10000	214

25. 282 companies with the revenue of more than $1 billion use openAI.

Here is a table showing the companies that use OpenAI by Revenue.

Company Revenue	Number of Companies that use OpenAI
Below $1 million	56
$1 million to $10 million	205
$10 million to $50 million	157
$50 million to $100 million	62
$100 million to $200 million	38
$200 million to $500 million	64
$500 million to $1 billion	39
Above $1 billion	282

26. The huggingface.co is emerging as a top competitor of OpenAI.

Here is a table showing the top 10 competitors of OpenAI.

Site	Affinity	Monthly Visit
huggingface.co	100%	14.90 million
wandb.ai	83%	1.80 million
deepai.org	82%	3.20 million
notion.so	71%	156.30 million
deepdreamgenerator.com	70%	1.50 million
figma.com	68%	94.90 million
hotpot.ai	67%	7.20 million
t.me	64%	683.80 million
npmjs.com	64%	19.60 million
upwork.com	63%	49.70 million

27. “chatgpt” is the top keyword search on openai.com, with 32.50 million searches as of 2023.

Here is a table showing the top 5 keywords searched on openai.com.

Rank	Keyword	Search count
1.	chatgpt	32.50 million
2.	chat gpt	20.00 million
3.	openai	4.00 million
4.	open ai	1.60 million
5.	dall e	1.20 million
6.	Other 16.3K keywords	–

28. In the state of Texas, 27 companies use OpenAI.

29. In the state of Florida, 16 companies use OpenAI.

Here is a table showing the states of the United States that are using OpenAI.

State	Number of Companies that are using OpenAI
California	167 companies
New York	54 companies
Texas	27 companies
Illinois	22 companies
Viginia	20 companies
Florida	16 companies
Georgia	6 companies
Missouri	5 companies
South Carolina	4 companies

30. 209 education institutions use OpenAI.

31. 251 technical companies use OpenAI.

Here is a table showing the use of OpenAI by Industry.

Industry	Number of companies that are using OpenAI
Technical	251
Education	209
Business Services	98
Manufacturing	89
Finance	44
Retail	35
Healthcare	24
Government	18
Media and Internet	17
Construction	15
Organizations	14
Telecommunications	13
Transportation	10
Entertainment	10
Consumer Services	10
Real Estate	9
Insurence Hospitality	9
Energy, utilities, and waste treatment	9
Wholesale	6
Law firm and legal services	1
Cultural	1
Agriculture	1

32. Microsoft, Khosla Ventures, and Infosys are invested in OpenAI.

Source: Enterpriseappstoday, Websiterating.com, Usesignhouse.

Products of OpenAI Statistics

OpenAI has developed several powerful products in 8 years after its launching. 

In this section, we will explore the products of OpenAI, including ChatGPT, GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT3, GPT-3.5, DALL.E 2, OpenAI Five, and OpenAI Codex. 

ChatGPT Statistics

Nowadays, everyone is talking about ChatGPT. It is a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI that can understand and generate human-like text.

As one of the most advanced language models in the world, ChatGPT leverage statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms to provide natural language responses to a wide range of questions and prompts.

In this section, we will explore some of the important statistics of ChatGPT.

33. Microsoft is planning to add ChatGPT to its search engine Bingo in 2023.

34. ChatGPT’s revenue is expected to reach $200 million by the end of 2023.

35. ChatGPT announced its pricing plan on 21st January 2023.

36. The professional plan’s price of ChatGPT is $42 per month.

37. The pilot subscription price of ChatGPT is $20 per month.

38. The cost of running ChatGPT is $0.1 million per day.

39. The monthly cost of running ChatGPT is $ 3 million.

40.  In ChatGPT’s system, there are 3000 words added.

41. The rate of accuracy of ChatGPT is almost 90%.

42.  ChatGPT had received 1 million subscribers just in 5 days.

Here is a table showing the platforms that received 1 million subscribers in minimum days.

Rank	Platform	Days took to get 1 million subscribers
1.	ChatGPT	5 days
2.	Facebook	10 days
3.	Instagram	60 days
4.	Spotify	150 days
5.	Netflix	1245 days

43. ChatGPT is famous all over the world, but it is banned in 7 nations. 

Here is a list showing the nations where ChatGPT is Banned. 

• Afghanistan
• Belarus
• China
• Iran
• Russia
• Ukraine
• Venezuela

44. ChatGPT was banned in New Your City Public School in January 2023.

45. ChatGPT received 10 million queries daily.

46. ChatGPT has 175 billion parameters.

47. ChatGPT has 570GB’s dataset.

48.  ChatGPT received 100 million subscribers in January 2023.

49. The training cost of ChatGPT was $12 million.   

50. 49% of people believed that ChatGPT could spread disinformation and misinformation.

51. ChatGPT’s daily visitor count is 25 million.

52. The website of ChatGPT has been visited by users 619 million times as of 2023.

53. After the launch of ChatGPT, the monthly page view of OpenAI jumped from 18.3 million to 304 million just in one month.

54. ChatGPT is built in addition to GPT-3.5.

Source: Demandsage, Blog.ingate.com, Nerdy Nav,

GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT-3, GPT-3.5  Statistics 

The GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series of language models developed by OpenAI have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, with each interaction pushing the boundaries of the human-like text. 

Starting with GPT-1 to the most recent release of GPT-3 and the follow-up release of GPT-3.5. 

In this section, we will see some important statistics of the GPT series in detail.

55. GPT-1 was trained with a 5GB dataset.

56. GPT-2’s training cost was $43000.

57. GPT-3 owner projected the revenue of GPT-3 $1 billion by 2024.

58. GPT-1 and GPT-2 were the foundation of GPT-3.

59. GPT-3 took 24 months to reach 1 million subscribers after its launch 2022.

Source: Demandsage, Blog.invgate.com

DALL.E 2 Statistics

DALL.E 2 is a highly advanced language model that can generate a high-quality image from textual descriptions.

Building upon the success of its predecessor DALL.E, this new model represents a significant breakthrough in the field of computer vision and image generation. 

In this section, we will explore some important statistics on DALL.E 2. 

60. DALL.E 2 took 2.5 months to reach 1 million subscribers after its launch in 2022. 

61. Over 1.5 million users visit DALL.E 2 daily.

62. More than 2 million images are created by DALL.E 2 every day. 

63. DALL·E 2 is available in beta with pricing, enabling over 1 million users to onboard.

64. Research reviews and papers published on DALL.E 2 are available for 200 researchers, artists, and trusted users.

Source: OpenAI

OpenAI Five Statistics

OpenAI Five is a highly advanced AI system developed by OpenAI that is designed to play the popular online video game Dota 2. 

Since its initial development and testing in 2017, OpenAI systems have demonstrated a performance level that surpasses that of most human players.

In this section, we will see some important statistics on OpenAI Five.

65. OpenAI Five’s win rate is 99.4%.

66. On OpenAI Five, there are 33.7k online players.

67. OpenAI Five defeated the World Champion of Dota 2.

Source: OpenAI

OpenAI Codex Statistics

OpenAI Codex is designed to translate natural language into code. Building on the success of the GPT series of language models, Codex represents a significant breakthrough in the field of programming and software development. It enables users to generate high-quality code quickly and easily. 

In this section, we will examine some of the most important statistics on the OpenAI Codex. 

68. OpenAI Codex was trained by using 159 GB of python code.

69. OpenAI Codex was trained by using 54 million repositories of GitHub.

70. OpenAI claimed that OpenAI Codex functions in more than 12 programming languages.

Here is a list showing some of the programming languages in which OpenAI Codex can function.

• TypeScript
• javaScrippt
• Swift
• PHP
• Ruby
• Perl
• Shell
• Python, Etc.

Source: OpenAI

OpenAI Revenue Statistics

Experts predicted OpenAI’s revenue would increase continuously in the coming days. 

In this section, we will see the important statistics on the revenue of OpenAI.

71. OpenAI expects $200 million in revenue by the end of 2023.

72. OpenAI expects $1 billion in revenue by 2024.

Here is a table showing revenue and net income of OpenAI from 2016 to 2020.

Year	Revenue	Net Income
2016	$13807074	$2569398
2017	$33228665	$4560437
2018	$49968631	-$1580378
2019	$31932729	$28599812
2020	$3481784	-$9508759

Source: Projects.propublica.org, 

OpenAI Traffic Statistics

In this section, we will exmine the trends in OpenAI’s website traffic over time, identifying periods of growth and change in the organization’s online presence. 

We will explore the statistics of OpenAI’s website, including the sources of traffic, the geographic distribution of visitors, and the most popular keywords on the site.

73. In a global traffic rank, OpenAI stands at 51.

74. The bounce rate of OpenAI is 22.94%.

75. Users search 6.70 pages per search on OpenAI. 

76. Users spend almost 4 minutes and 7 seconds on the OpenAI site.

77. In the last three months (December 2022 to January 2023), OpenAI’s rank growth has been impressive from 1879 to 51.

78. 667.00 million users visited OpenAI.com in the month of January 2023.

Here is a table showing the total of visitors to OpenAI from November 2022 to January 2023.

Months	Total visitors
November 2022	18.30 million
December 2022	304.00 million
January 2023	667.00 million

79. The United States contribute 15.64% of the total traffic received by OpenAI.

Here is a table showing the top 5 countries that are contributing the most to the traffic of OpenAi.

Country	Percentage of traffic
The United States	15.64%
India	7.08%
France	4.33%
Germany	3.61%
The United Kingdom	3.50%
Others	65.83%

80. OpenAI’s 65.49% of traffic comes from direct search.

Here is a table showing the total breakdown of OpenAI’s traffic.

OpenAI’s traffic comes from	The Percentage of Traffic
Direct Search	65.49%
Referrals	0.87%
Organic Search	28.58%
Paid Search	0.01%
Social	3.34%
Mail	1.70%
Display	0.03%

Source: Similarweb.com

OpenAI Audience Demography Statistics

OpenAI attracts a diverse and engaged audience of individuals and organisations from around the world. 

In this section, we will explore the audience demographics for OpenAI, including age, gender and demographic distribution of its followers and supporters.

81. 34.82% of the total traffic comes from the age group of 25 to 34 years old users.

Here is a table showing the total breakdown of the traffic of OpenAI by age group.

Age Groups	Percentage of traffic
18 to 24 years old	27.70%
25 to 34 years old	34.82%
35 to 44 years old	18.28%
44 to 54 years old	10.11%
55 to 64 years old	5.67%
Above 65 years old	3.42%

82. In the total traffic of OpenAI, 65.68% of traffic comes from male users, and 34.32% of traffic comes from female users.

83. Social traffic of OpenAI is 3.34%.

Here is a table showing the social traffic of OpenAI by social platform.

Rank	Social Platforms	Traffic comes to OpenAI
1.	YouTube	60.43%
2.	Facebook	10.22%
3.	WhatsApp	8.24%
4.	Twitter	5.68%
5.	LinkedIn	3.79%
6.	Others	11.65%

Source: Similarweb.com

OpenAI Employee Statistics

OpenAI is the home of some brightest minds in the industry. As such, the organisation’s workforce comprises a highly skilled and diverse group of individuals dedicated to advancing the field of AI.

In this section, we will explore the employment statistics for OpenAI, including the size and compensation of its workforce.

84. Christopher Olah was the highest-paid employee of OpenAI with $286073 compensation in 2020.

Here is a table showing some key employees and their compensation in 2020.

Employee	Compensation
Christopher Olah (Technical Staff)	$286073
David Luan (VP Engineer)	$242500
John Schulman (Technical Staff)	$216667
Chris Clark (COO/Sec/Tres)	$143750
Scott Gray (Technical Staff)	$74167
Christopher Berner (Technical Staff)	$72500
David Lansky (General Counsel)	$59334
Ilya Sutskever (Research Dir.)	$29167
Gregory Brockman (Director/CTO)	$29167

85. The total employees of OpenAI are 375+ as of January 2023.

Here is a table showing the number of employees from 2015 to 2023.

Year	Number of Employees
2015	6
2016	25
2017	45
2018	52
2019	100
2020	120
2021	220
2022	335
2023	375

Source: Projects.propublica.org, Usesignhouse.com.

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Conclusion: OpenAI Statistics (2023)

OpenAI is becoming a leading organization in the field of artificial intelligence. In terms of revenue and employee strength, OpenAI is growing significantly year by year. 

OpenAI has gained advancement in natural language processing, reinforcement learning, robotics, and other research areas.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has gained more attention than any other product of OpenAI. Many people have used ChatGPT till now. It gained 1 million subscribers just five days after its launch in 2022. 

As our research shows, OpenAI’s statistics are changing rapidly. These statistics are changing every month in terms of visitors, subscribers, etc.. 

To keep you updated with recent statistics of OpenAI, we will update you from time to time. 

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