Global expansion in Generative AI: a year of growth, newcomers, and attacks

This post analyzes the growth and traffic patterns of Generative AI services throughout 2024 and early 2025, using aggregated data from Cloudflare's network and DNS resolver. It highlights key trends such as ChatGPT's continued popularity, rapid traffic growth across Generative AI services (251% increase), the rise of new entrants like DeepSeek and Grok/xAI, global reach with regional variations in user distribution, and a significant volume of targeted cyberattacks (197 billion blocked requests). It provides specific rankings of popular Generative AI services and their visitor location distributions.