According to data estimates from Similarweb, the traffic for OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, experienced a decline from May to June, indicating a potential decrease in interest in the AI assistant tool.
The desktop and mobile web traffic for ChatGPT dropped by 9.7% in June, with unique visitors and time spent on the site also declining by 5.7% and 8.5%, respectively. In the United States, the month-on-month decline in traffic was 10.3%.
Despite the decline, ChatGPT remains ahead of other AI-powered chatbots like Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing, and Character AI. Some speculated that the drop in traffic could be attributed to students being on their summer break, as well as the novelty of the AI chatbot starting to wear off.
However, a community member argued that the data did not include traffic from ChatGPT’s recently-released iOS application, suggesting a potential change in how users access the AI chatbot.
OpenAI launched the ChatGPT mobile application for iOS on May 18, initially limited to the United States with plans to expand the release to other countries in the following weeks.
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