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OpenAI says more women than men now use ChatGPT, flipping an 80-20 male split at launch
OpenAI says more women than men now use ChatGPT regularly. The company also estimates China's AI investments at up to $125 billion and sees computing power as a critical competitive advantage.
When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, around 80 percent of users had typically male first names. That picture has flipped: more than 50 percent of regular users now have female first names, according to OpenAI's own data. The shift has been in place since at least fall 2025, with a slight lean toward female users. At ChatGPT's current weekly active user count, that means nearly half a billion women worldwide now use the tool regularly. Overall, the company is closing in on one billion users, it says.
OpenAI credits the shift to ChatGPT's evolution from a technical niche product to an everyday tool. As generative AI became more familiar and socially accepted, early adoption barriers fell away. ChatGPT is moving through this cycle much faster than earlier technologies like the PC or the internet, the company claims. Still, OpenAI warns against assuming these gaps will close on their own. Inequalities still need to be tracked and addressed across income, education, company size, sector, and geography.
OpenAI puts China's AI spending at up to $125 billion
Despite the geopolitical spotlight on the US-China AI race, OpenAI says there is "surprisingly little clarity" about what China is actually spending, calling the data "opaque, fragmented, and likely incomplete."
OpenAI's Intelligence & Investigations team estimates China's total AI spending for 2025 at between $97.2 billion and $125.3 billion, spread across government, private companies, and state-owned telecom providers. The US still leads in capital expenditure with a forecast of $527 billion for 2026, but China's lower costs give it significantly more purchasing power per dollar.
The breakdown: OpenAI pegs Chinese corporate spending at $67.5 billion to $76 billion, driven mainly by Alibaba, ByteDance, Huawei, and Tencent. Direct government fiscal support lands between $16.8 billion and $36.4 billion, with large state-owned enterprises adding another $12.9 billion. Since OpenAI only counted direct subsidies, actual government spending is likely higher.