ChatGpt is close to overtaking Google: it aims to become the most used online service in the world.

ChatGpt has Google in its sights and is aiming to overtake it as the world's most used online service. In just a few years, OpenAI 's artificial intelligence has become the fastest-growing software in history and is rapidly closing in on taking the search engine crown.

According to data released by Sam Altman 's company and disclosed by Axios , 2.5 billion prompts are typed globally every day. In December 2024, there were "just" 1 billion. Of these, only 330 million are US users, confirming the service's global appeal. In Italy, according to Comscore data, there are 11 million daily users , a 65% increase since the beginning of the year. Altman 's AI is particularly popular in our country with young people between the ages of 15 and 24 (44.5%).

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Alphabet , the holding company that controls Google , does not disclose daily search numbers, but recently announced that 5 trillion queries are performed each year . The daily average, therefore, would be around 13.7 billion searches . Some experts, however, believe the real number could be closer to 16.4 billion.

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ChatGpt is still quite a ways off, but given the exponential growth in its use, it's not that hard to imagine it could soon catch up with Google , if not surpass it. Its leadership in the Gen AI sector is, moreover, indisputable. According to data from FirstSage , ChatGpt holds 60% of the market share in the US, compared to 14.3% for Microsoft 's Copilot and 13.5% for Google 's Gemini .

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