ChatGPT app expanded to 11 countries with over half a million downloads

The ChatGPT app has announced its expansion to 11 new countries, including some in Europe, and it reported more than 500,000 downloads in just six days after its launch, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai. 

This ranks it as one of the top-performing apps launches this year and last, topped only by the February 2022 arrival of Trump-backed Twitter clone Truth Social.

OpenAI's ChatGPT application arrived to unseat competitors, successfully breaking through, including other popular AI and chatbot applications, as well as Microsoft's Bing and Edge applications, which offered some of the first significant integrations of OpenAI's GPT-4 technology.

Microsoft and Bing's apps also benefit from AI as a trend 

Despite this, Bing and Microsoft Edge app also took advantage of the interest in ChatGPT on its debut, respectively achieving 340 thousand and 335 thousand downloads on iOS and Android in their best five-day periods in February. 

Although OpenAI's ChatGPT app easily surpassed them, achieving 480 thousand installs in the first five days of its U.S. launch, when the app was only available on iOS.

Compared to just iOS downloads of Bing and Edge, ChatGPT was even further ahead with 480,000 installs versus Bing's 250,000 and Edge's 195,000 in this period.

The ChatGPT fever

On May 28, at the Computex show in Taiwan, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a new AI supercomputer platform called DGX GH200. According to Huang, the main goal of the supercomputer is to help tech companies develop successors to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.

Major tech companies such as Microsoft, Meta, and Google's Alphabet are expected to be some of the pioneering users of the supercomputer team.

Huang announced a new service called Nvidia ACE for Games, aimed at the video game industry. ACE will use AI to help give background characters in games more character.