Where Data Tells the Story
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The numbers confirm what people already sense: ChatGPT is sliding into the space Google once owned, with the difference that people expect a finished answer, not a list of options. This comes from a brand-new OpenAI study, the first time we’ve been able to see usage data at this level of detail since GPT launched.
📈 By mid-2025, consumer users were sending about 2.6 billion ChatGPT messages per day, putting it on par with major social platforms in raw interaction volume.
🧑💻 Use skewed younger and more educated, but adoption was broad enough that the authors treated it as a general consumer tool, not just a tech-niche phenomenon.
🔍 Roughly half of the “seeking info” use cases were direct replacements for Google-style queries, but with a preference for synthesis instead of lists of links.
🏫 Education stood out: teachers and students both leaned heavily on ChatGPT, raising questions about pedagogy and plagiarism but also about access to tutoring at scale.
🌍 Non-English usage was significant and rising quickly, suggesting that translation and localized tutoring are accelerating global adoption beyond U.S. and Europe.