Having fun while generating Ghibli-inspired AI images? Sam Altman says ChatGPT will be slow after capacity challenges

Amid a big rush to generate Ghibli-inspired AI images, OpenAI's Sam Altman has issued an important update for the users, saying that the new releases from the company are likely to be delayed, stuff to break, and for service to sometimes be slow as it deals with capacity challenges.

"We are getting things under control, but you should expect new releases from openai to be delayed, stuff to break, and for service to sometimes be slow as we deal with capacity challenges. Working as fast we can to really get stuff humming; if anyone has GPU capacity in 100k chunks we can get asap please call!" said Altman in a post on X.

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ChatGPT breaches 150 million mark

The frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool led to a record surge in users for OpenAI's chatbot last week, straining its servers and temporarily limiting the feature's usage.

The viral trend saw users from across the globe flood social media with images based on the hand-drawn style of the famed Japanese animation outfit, Studio Ghibli, founded by renowned director Hayao Miyazaki and known for movies such as "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro".

Average weekly active users breached the 150 million mark for the first time this year, according to data from market research firm Similarweb.

"We added one million users in the last hour," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an X post on Monday, comparing it with the addition of one million users in five days following ChatGPT's red-hot launch more than two years ago.

Active users, in-app subscription revenue and app downloads reached an all-time high last week, according to SensorTower data, after the AI company launched updates to its GPT-4o model, enabling advanced image generation capabilities.

Global app downloads and weekly active users on the ChatGPT app grew 11% and 5%, respectively, from the prior week, while in-app purchase revenue increased 6%, the market intelligence firm said.

"It's super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT. But our GPUs are melting," Altman said last week in response to the viral trend.