India stimulates the AI boom of chatgpt, as users create more than 700 million images amid viral Ghibli trend | Mint
Chatgpt’s new Beeld generation feature, launched last week, has become extremely popular, with more than 130 million users creating 700 million images. India is the fastest growing market for chatgpt, as noted by Openai’s COO and CEO, which highlights the boom in AI adoption and creativity. The Studio Ghibli-style image generated using Chatgpt Chatgpt’s indigenous image generation capabilities was launched last week, and since then users have not been able to get enough of the service, as a raging Studio Ghibli-style imagery has taken over the Internet. Openai Coo Brad Lightcap shared incredible statistics on the use of Chatgpt’s new image creation function. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Lightcap noted that more than 130 million chatgpt users have produced more than 700 million images since last Tuesday. The Openai COO also reflects CEO Sam Altman a day before when he confirmed that India became the fastest growing market for Chatgpt. “What is happening to AI adoption in India now is surprising to look at. We like to see the explosion of creativity-India is surpassing the world. ‘ Altman said a day earlier. Altman also said before that Openai had one million users in an hour compared to the height of the AI hype at the end of 2022 when Chatgpt debuted for the public where he added 1 million users in a month. Chatgpt already had an image generator, what has changed? Chatgpt has already had access to imaging capabilities via Openai’s own Dall-E 3 model, but Openai unlocked the Beeld generation capabilities in GPT-4O last week-the language model that runs the popular chatbot. The new change has allowed chatgpt to produce faster and seamless images without having to rely on external models. The new capabilities of Chatgpt have allowed to have more control over the images that lead to control over more image styles and higher consistency. While Chatgpt’s new Abilties allow it to do a wealth of tasks such as creating PPTs, infographic, comics and even photoealistic images, users on social media hit a chord with the ability of the chatbot to create real images in Studio Ghibli style, which led to mass trend. Ghibli style image generated using Chatgpt Ghibli style images of the Indian cricket team How did the extra traffic affect Openai? Since the launch of Chatgpt’s new image generation capabilities, the service has suffered at least two interruptions. The increase in users also puts a lot of pressure on the Openai team, which doesn’t get much sleep to make everything go smoothly, Almtan said in a post. Openai publicly confirmed that this is facing a serious shortage of GPU, as the question of the new function of Chatgpt showed no signs of slowdown. Earlier this week, Altman said that although the Microsoft-backed company is trying to get things under control, new releases are delayed from it and the service can sometimes be slow as it tries to handle ‘capacity challenges’. First published: 4 Apr 2025, 08:08 AM IST