ChatGPT and Claude reached 500 million active users in about 2¼ years, making them the fastest-adopted technology ever. College-aged workers now use AI to generate marketing plans in seconds, reshaping how they think about work. Boards and CEOs are declaring AI-first strategies, potentially outpacing the cloud era's speed.
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I mean, I don't think it's that crazy to say. I mean, this is easily the fastest adopted technology in history. If you look at ChatGPT's, you know, any of their published metrics, somewhere, what, 500 million active users, something on that order of magnitude in 2, 2 and a half years, 2 and a quarter years. There's never in history, there's never been something like that because first of all, in every other technology transformation in history, you didn't have enough people wired up on the internet that put up those kind of numbers. So, so it's just like de facto it's obviously correct. And so, so think about, to Raj's point, how many people right now are being wired completely differently. I don't know if anybody has gone to a college, knows somebody in college, maybe just graduated college. I was speaking at a college class recently, and it's like, these kids are like, I want to be a little bit like old man yells at cloud kind of thing, or get off my lawn, but it's like you're also kind of like amazed by how it works, but like, They do not work like us. They're much more efficient. They're much more efficient. Maybe they don't know anything as a result, but they work so differently. And it's like they're going to come into our enterprises and be like, wait a second, like you take 2 weeks to come up with a project plan for some marketing strategy? Like literally that thing was just spit out by Claude in 5 seconds. Like they're going to wonder, why do we work the way we work? But like, Think about an entire onslaught of a new generation that is just like, why would you spend time reinventing the wheel of a, of a marketing plan? Like, literally, it's in. And so, so this is, this is why you're going to see such a rapid change is you have a new workforce entering, you know, every organization. You have boards and CEOs and governments saying like, holy crap, we got it. There is not an enterprise that you could meet with today where they have not already basically said, here's our AI-first strategy, or here's the AI-first strategy we're working on, or here are our AI principles. That is not happening in these big companies. So we're in a totally different market. And so probably to your point, like it will move way faster than cloud. And that timeline is going to shrink in a pretty incredible way.
