OpenAI Statistics: Stats Facts and Trends for 2024 (Updated ...)
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OpenAI Employee Stats and Facts 2024
In 2024 OpenAI has 3.4K employees. In the beginning and as a non-profit company, they employed only several hundred people (624 employees to be exact) but as the company grew more people in various roles got hired. This is a ~1000% increase from 2022 when OpenAI employed 335 people. In 2024, OpenAI employs 475+ engineers working in their artificial intelligence department. This number pales in comparison with the tech giants Google and Facebook who employ thousands of engineers in their AI departments. The average salary of an OpenAI employee is $925,000/yr. This is an excellent yearly salary that will rise in the future as the market gets more competitive and OpenAI needs to attract more talent.
OpenAI valuation in 2024 is $100 billion which is approximately 4% of the total valuation and market share of the entire artificial intelligence industry of $500 billion. OpenAI valuation in late 2024 reached $157 billion after a new fundraising round, led by the investment firm Thrive Capital. Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019. In 2023, Microsoft invested an additional $10 billion.
OpenAI Revenue Statistics and Facts 2024
OpenAI is no longer a non-profit organization. They started in 2015 as a non-profit but in 2019, OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to “capped” for-profit, with the profit capped at 100 times any investment. In 2024, most of OpenAI’s profit comes from the platform’s partnerships and investments. The much smaller part of the revenue comes from selling a subscription to ChatGPT+($20/mo). OpenAI’s estimated revenue in 2024 is $3.4 billion. Most of that revenue will come from ChatGPT+ subscriptions and the platform’s new partnerships and investments. Open AI’s revenue is predicted to grow 3x and reach $10 billion in 2025.
OpenAI Demographic and Traffic Trends in 2024
The largest OpenAI user group in 2024 is the 282 companies with over $1 billion in revenue. In second place are 205 companies with $1-10 million in revenue. And when it comes to smaller businesses, about 56 companies with less than $1 million in revenue have started using OpenAI in 2024. 214+ companies with more than 10,000 employees use OpenAI products. The second-largest group is companies with 1,000 to 5,000 employees, with 139+ companies using OpenAI products. Smaller companies with fewer employees appear to be more cautious when it comes to adopting OpenAI products. Only 45 companies with between 500 and 999 employees have used any of the OpenAI products. That’s smaller than the number of companies (63) with fewer than 10 employees using the OpenAI platform.
OpenAI Website Traffic and Usage Statistics 2024
In 2024 OpenAI is the 19th most popular website in the world with an average of 1.9 billion visits per month. OpenAI website ranks 4th in its main topic category of Computers Electronics and Technology > Computers Electronics and Technology. In 2024 OpenAI gets ~1.9 billion visits per month, and 98% of those are visits to ChatGPT by OpenAI. The traffic to OpenAI is growing month by month. In March 2024, OpenAI received 1.6 billion, in April 1.8 billion, and in May it peaked at 1.9 billion.
In 2024, the OpenAI website visitor male:female ratio is 59.67% male and 40.33% female. This means ChatGPT is more popular among men though the reason for this disbalance is currently unknown. The median age of OpenAI website visitors and product users is 25 – 34 years old.
Marketing Channels and Social Media Reach of OpenAI in 2024
The top marketing channels of OpenAI in 2024 are direct traffic, organic search, YouTube, and WhatsApp. Most of the OpenAI traffic is direct and nearly all of these people are web users who go directly to ChatGPT or Dall-E. The second best marketing channel is organic search which means traffic from Google, Bing, and other search engines. In 2024, the social media platforms that send the most traffic to OpenAI are YouTube and WhatsApp.
Global Reach and Usage of OpenAI in 2024
In 2024, 156 countries in the world have access to OpenAI products. This means 40+ countries and territories don’t have access to OpenAI’s products. In most of these countries, OpenAI products and especially conversational AI ChatGPT are censored due to being able to provide content that doesn’t comply with local government censorship. The top five countries that use OpenAI include the US, India, France, Spain, and the UK. Combined, these countries account for 39.96% of all OpenAI website visits. The remaining 151 countries with access to the platform account for the other 60.04% of visits.
OpenAI products are widely used in the US in 2024. However, not every US state is represented the same. Here’s the US states breakdown by the number of US companies using OpenAI’s products.
Here are the industry sectors that use OpenAI products the most.
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