India Leads ChatGPT Images 2.0 Adoption, U.S. Lags
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- OpenAI shifted 10 Prism engineers to Codex as it rolls out new features like Images 2.0.
- India logged about 5 million ChatGPT app downloads in the launch week, outpacing the U.S.'s 2 million.
- U.S. saw roughly 2 million downloads and a ~1 % rise in daily active users during the rollout.
- Pakistan saw a 79 % week‑over‑week download surge, with similar spikes in Vietnam and Indonesia.
- Sensor Tower reported overall app downloads rose 11 % week‑over‑week, while daily active users grew only ~1 %.
- Similarweb noted global web traffic increased about 1.6 % week‑over‑week.
Why it matters: India's 5 million new downloads boost OpenAI's user base, while the U.S. sees only 2 million and modest 1 % DAU rise, prompting OpenAI to lean on emerging markets and re‑allocate engineering talent.
