OpenAI Surges Ahead in Business AI Subscriptions

OpenAI just had its business user base skyrocket, with over 2 million business users as of April. That represents a hefty jump from the 1 million users cited back in September. That increase is an early sign of OpenAI’s success at luring enterprises. This wave of friends suggests that Nvidia is the clear winner and leading competitor to all of their rivals in the AI race.

Since March, 28% of the businesses we surveyed have adopted a subscription to OpenAI’s products. This is a significant jump from the 18.9% subscription rate in January. This critical data, mined from around 30,000 different companies, helps to illustrate the increasing trust put into OpenAI’s tools. A rival AI firm, Anthropic, announced that just 8% of companies were paying for its services last month. This is a dramatic jump from only 4.6% in January.

OpenAI’s rapid expansion indicates a robust position in the AI market, particularly as it continues to capture a larger share of enterprises’ AI spending. The cloud communications company’s growth trajectory is reflected in the company’s skyrocketing user growth. Plus, subscription rates to its products are through the roof!

OpenAI has been on the front end of spotting and scaling successful AI use cases, as we detailed in this report released in April. This implementation strategy has certainly helped smart city solutions quickly spread within the business community.

“OpenAI continues to add customers faster than any other business on Ramp’s platform,” – Ara Kharzian

Looking around at the landscape today, it genuinely feels like OpenAI is getting away from the pack, especially Anthropic. This gap in subscription rates illustrates the difficulty for competitors to compete with OpenAI’s sexiness and public-facing branding.

Additionally, to bolster revenue, OpenAI is testing more expensive subscriptions to its flagship product, ChatGPT. OpenAI is on the cutting edge of AI tech. To maintain its meteoric growth, it needs to innovate faster than the competition and keep adding new corporate clients.