How ChatGPT Managed to Grow Faster Than TikTok or Instagram

A version of this article was published in TIME's newsletter Into the Metaverse. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. The AI chatbot ChatGPT has become mega-popular in just a matter of weeks--way faster than social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram. Only two months after its launch in late November, the chatbot had 100 million monthly active users in January, according to data from Similarweb. A study from Swiss bank UBS noted that "in 20 years following the internet space, we cannot recall a faster ramp in a consumer internet app."