Sam Altman says the “biblical demand” for ChatGPT-4o’s Ghibli memes has added one million users in just one hour, but “chill out a bit — our GPUs are melting”

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It’s not surprising that OpenAI’s recent upgrade for ChatGPT is popular among many users, particularly due to the unrestricted and innovative nature of its image generation features driven by GPT-4. Consequently, the AI chatbot’s user base has expanded substantially over the last few days.

Lately, Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, announced that ChatGPT hit a significant achievement, signing up more than a million new users within approximately an hour.

Approximately two years ago, the launch of chatGPT went virally insane, with a staggering increase of one million users within just five days. Now, we’ve managed to gain another million users in an astoundingly short timeframe – just the last hour. (March 31, 2025)

When OpenAI debuted ChatGPT in 2022, Sam Altman called it one of the most astonishingly popular events he’d ever witnessed, amassing over a million users within just five days. Now, with its latest image generation capabilities, ChatGPT-4 is creating quite a stir, suggesting that an hour of its new release might be as groundbreaking as those initial five days were.

On the other hand, the growing enthusiasm surrounding ChatGPT’s ability to generate images brings about its own set of difficulties. The popularity of this tool has surpassed what OpenAI originally anticipated, leading them to postpone its launch temporarily in order to accommodate users.

The executive disclosed that the delay occurred due to insufficient GPUs to handle the tool’s computational requirements. Altman further mentioned, “We’re running out of GPUs.

Due to an overwhelming demand for the image-generating tool, there were difficulties with new registrations, however, it appears that these problems have now been resolved. Translated: The surge in usage of the image generator caused some registration issues, but it seems they’ve been sorted out. (Informal)

can yall please chill on generating images this is insane our team needs sleepMarch 30, 2025

As a researcher, I’m excited to share that the CEO of OpenAI has communicated a committed team is ensuring the continued availability of their popular image generation tool due to overwhelming demand. In his words, “We’ve been working tirelessly since its launch to keep up with the interest, but the demand has been biblical – I’ve never seen anything like it.

Although ChatGPT surpasses traditional tools such as DALL-E 3 significantly in generating unique images, it has sparked apprehension within the artistic and creative community.

Predictably, this tool has been found to involve copyright violations since it uses copyrighted material from the web for learning purposes and generates new versions of the original works without giving credit or payment.

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2025-04-01 12:39