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		jasonjmcghee 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its mode... 1 billion MAU? What's the source on that? Very difficult to believe.

ceejayoz 8 months ago [–]

It probably counts pretty much anyone on a newer iPhone/Mac (https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iph00fd3c8c2/io...) and Windows/Bing. Plus all the smaller integrations out there. All of which can be migrated to a new LLM vendor... pretty quickly.

I wonder what the direct user counts are.

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