OpenAI Publishes ChatGPT Data on 1 Billion Users as Multimedia Messages Reach 7.8%
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Updated · OpenAI · Aug 6
OpenAI Publishes ChatGPT Data on 1 Billion Users as Multimedia Messages Reach 7.8%
3 articles · Updated · OpenAI · Aug 6
Summary
OpenAI released its first country-by-country ChatGPT dataset, saying more than 1 billion users are increasingly using the tool to complete tasks rather than just ask questions.
Work use drives that shift: globally, people are more than twice as likely to use ChatGPT for creating or completing tasks at work than outside work, where information-seeking still leads.
7.8% of messages now involve multimedia after the April rollout of ChatGPT Images 2.0, with Brazil and Colombia each seeing more than one in ten messages in that category.
Q2 2026 data also showed lower-adoption regions catching up, with Peru, Uruguay and Costa Rica rising fastest in the per-capita rankings.
Users over 35 increased their share of messages by 5% year over year in almost every country, including gains of more than 10 percentage points in France and Czechia.