November 30, 2022
ChatGPT launched
OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. released ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users. as a research preview on November 30, 2022 — a conversational interface to GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-3.5 that quickly became the fastest-growing consumer app in history.
What it was for
ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users. put large language models in a chat window anyone could use: writing, coding help, tutoring, and brainstorming without APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. keys. Analyst estimates of 100 million users within two months (reported February 2023) made it the consumer moment that triggered an industry-wide rush into copilots, search redesigns, and enterprise AI.
People
- Sam Altman — ceo
Companies
- OpenAI
Why it's here
ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users. was the consumer moment that made LLMs impossible to ignore.
Why it mattered
It shifted software from 'AI as feature' to 'AI as interface' across every product category.
What it solved
Powerful language models existed in research APIs but were inaccessible to non-technical users.
Media
- ImageChatGPT
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Related
- OpenAI GPT-3 API announcedJune 11, 2020
- GPT-4 releasedMarch 14, 2023