What Is ChatGPT? Everything You Need to Know About the AI Assistant
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ChatGPT is the artificial intelligence chatbot that brought generative AI into the mainstream. Launched in November 2022 by OpenAI, the company co-founded by Sam Altman, ChatGPT quickly became the most popular AI application, and the one everyone tried to emulate and one-up. Since then, all the big tech players have joined the generative AI race. Perplexity, Meta AI, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, Grok and Anthropic’s Claude can all do similar things. But ChatGPT’s popularity and early start gave it a strong lead. ChatGPT became one of the fastest-growing apps in history, amassing over 1 billion users. It often stands out for its versatility and ease of use, but mostly for the sheer scale of its user base. This AI assistant is now far beyond the familiar prompt-and-answer chatbot.
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