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Can 780 million ChatGPT users take on one silverback gorilla?

Traffic to ChatGPT.com hit a new all-time high of 780 million visits in the US in April.

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If you really need to ask an AI chatbot who would win in a battle between 100 men and a gorilla, or use it to dream up an image of President Trump as the next pontiff, you have many options today.

You can use Meta’s new, stand-alone MetaAI app, or you could ask Google’s Gemini, and there’s always Anthropic’s Claude. AI chatbots are kind of everywhere these days.

But the place that seems to be the most popular for such queries is OpenAI’s ChatGPT.com. According to data from Similarweb, the web-based chatbot received 780 million visits last month from American users — a 14% jump from March.

It’s been a year since OpenAI rolled out the simplified website interface for its consumer-facing chatbot.

OpenAI seems to be aiming for a significant slice of the web search pie that Google currently dominates.

While 780 million monthly visits sounds like a lot, it’s still far behind the 16 billion visits to Google.com, according to Similarweb’s data. Google is racking up 96 billion web searches per week, versus ChatGPT’s 1 billion.

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Musk wants Tesla’s Optimus to get in and out of the Cybercab to deliver packages

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos seem to be competing on nearly every level. Both have media companies, both have space companies, and both helm private AI companies. Now it seems their giant public tech companies are slated to go head to head.

Musk has told his teams working on the Optimus robot that he wants it to be able to get in and out of the company’s Cybercab to make deliveries, according to a report by The Information. Amazon, of course, has also been amping up its use of robots, eventually planning to have them deliver its e-commerce packages.

The Optimus and Cybercab are supposed to go into production next year.

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The Optimus and Cybercab are supposed to go into production next year.

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Elon Musk runs an AI startup — now, so does Jeff Bezos, as he launches Project Prometheus

Jeff Bezos, the third-richest man in the world and the founder of Amazon, a company increasingly focused on AI, has created a new AI startup of which he will be co-CEO, according to The New York Times. The new venture, Project Prometheus, aims to use AI to engineer and manufacture automobiles and spacecraft. It also sounds quite a bit like Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI.

Musk, the richest man in the world and the CEO of Tesla, a company increasingly focused on AI, also leads his AI startup and is progressively working on integrating its technology into his vehicle and space companies.

Musk’s space company is SpaceX, while Bezos’ is called Blue Origin. Musk owns social media company X, formerly Twitter, which is now part of xAI. Bezos owns media company The Washington Post. Bezos also has invested in an EV company, Slate Auto, which some see as a “Tesla killer.” Got it?

In other words, Bezos and Musk remain engaged in a billionaire version of “keeping up with the Joneses.”

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FT says Apple’s CEO could step down as soon as 2026, Bloomberg disagrees

Late Friday, the Financial Times reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook, a 65-year-old who’s led the company for nearly 15 years, could be stepping down as early as next year. On Saturday, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, whose Apple reporting is considered gospel by many, pooh-poohed that timeline, saying that while Apple is readying succession plans, “I don’t get the sense anything is imminent as the @FT is claiming.”

Both the FT and Bloomberg have reported that Apple’s hardware chief, John Ternus, is likely next in line.

The stock is down about 1% premarket, as investors contemplate what Apple, which recently posted a superlative Q4 earnings report, would be like without its longtime supply chain guru.

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Apple’s limited AI exposure is paying off again

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are negative this month.

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Tesla is back in the negative this year

After falling more than 6% yesterday in its biggest drop since July, Tesla is once again in negative territory for the year. Elon Musk’s company posted record earnings last month, buoyed by pulled-forward demand tied to the final quarter of US federal EV tax credits, but its margins slipped as steep discounts were used to clear inventory.

Now the stock, which only turned positive for the year in September, is under renewed pressure amid a broader tech and AI sell-off, as investors grow concerned that the Federal Reserve may pause its rate-cutting cycle. Adding to the drag are soft sales in Tesla’s second-largest market, China, and news that longtime bull Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest unloaded roughly $30 million in shares this week.