OpenAI reveals ChatGPT’s most popular features (www.techradar.com)

To mark ChatGPT’s third birthday, OpenAI published usage stats showing the tool’s mainstream footprint: roughly 800 million weekly users and about 29,000 messages answered per second. The company says three-quarters of conversations are focused on practical guidance, information-seeking and writing. At work, the dominant task is modifying existing text—editing, critiquing and translating—rather than authoring content from scratch. Globally the six most-used features are: uploading an image, searching the web, using a reasoning model, generating an image, data analysis, and dictation — notably, users upload and edit their own photos more often than they generate new images. Those patterns matter for the AI/ML community because they spotlight real-world needs: low-friction, multimodal assistance, reliable reasoning and web-integrated knowledge are driving adoption more than novelty generation alone. The UK-specific breakdown reinforces this: people rely on ChatGPT for drafting communications, how‑to guidance, learning and everyday decisions, with coding and heavy analytics further down the list. For product teams and researchers, the takeaway is clear—prioritize robust editing/augmentation workflows, multimodal understanding, safe web search and reasoning capabilities, and evaluation metrics that measure utility in practical, short-form tasks rather than just raw content creation.