OpenAI's artificial intelligence (AI) service ChatGPT has surpassed 18 million monthly users in South Korea for the first time. The number of users has increased by nearly 44% over the past year, while total usage time has more than doubled.
According to a report from AIGAWORKS Mobile Index on November 8, the monthly active users (MAU) of the ChatGPT app in South Korea reached 18,762,276 last month, up 43.8% from 13,048,025 in the same month last year.
During the same period, total usage time surged from approximately 23.83 million hours to 50.98 million hours, marking a 113.9% increase. The average monthly usage time per user also rose from about 110 minutes to 163 minutes, an increase of 48.8%.
ChatGPT ranked first in a separate survey conducted by WiseApp & Retail regarding business AI app users in September. In this survey, ChatGPT had 24.7 million monthly users, followed by A-dot with 11.47 million and Google Gemini with 9.87 million. Anthropic's Claude ranked fourth with 4.04 million users.
Claude demonstrated significant growth in both surveys. In the WiseApp & Retail survey, Claude's user count in September increased by 853.1% compared to the same month last year, achieving the highest growth rate among business AI apps with over 1 million monthly users. Gemini and Grok followed with increases of 192.0% and 142.7%, respectively.
According to the Mobile Index, Claude's MAU last month was approximately 2.1 million, growing about 15 times from 139,131 in the same month last year. Total usage time soared from 171,341 hours to 3,878,241 hours, more than a 22-fold increase. The average monthly usage time per user increased from 74.7 minutes to about 111 minutes.
In contrast, SK Telecom's A-dot app saw its MAU drop to about 1.07 million last month, a decrease of 42.5% compared to the same month last year. The AI search service Perplexity also saw a decline, with approximately 570,000 users, down 30.9%.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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