ChatGPT (Consumer Distribution)
800M-user funnel, the AI consumer default
ChatGPT reached ~800M weekly active users in 2025, the defining consumer distribution asset that lets OpenAI convert model quality into subscription and advertising revenue. Consumer default status is a demand-side moat rivaling any supply-chain chokepoint.
WAU (2025)
~800M
How it fits the stack
ChatGPT (Consumer Distribution) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
ChatGPT (Consumer Distribution) in the AI stack. ChatGPT (Consumer Distribution) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 3 entities, 2 relationships
- ChatGPT (Consumer Distribution) —depends on→ Microsoft Azure
- OpenAI —used by→ ChatGPT (Consumer Distribution)