Goldman Sachs mistakenly attributed the decline in OpenAI's ChatGPT traffic to data analysis errors, failing to notice that domain changes distorted traffic statistics, which raised concerns in the market about the outlook for AI stocks. In reality, Similarweb data shows that the number of ChatGPT users has increased by 66.2% over the past year, making it the most popular generative AI application. OpenAI announced that its weekly active users have reached 200 million, doubling from 2022, with rapid growth in enterprise business and a continuous rise in API usage demand.

OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a decline in website traffic for three consecutive months in August 2023. The downward trend in traffic may be stabilizing. The start of the new school year is expected to positively impact the website traffic and usage of ChatGPT. Global traffic to the ChatGPT website declined by 3.2% in August, while the number of global unique visitors to ChatGPT's website saw a slight increase.