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Record 009 · Software · 2022

22.09.S

ChatGPT

OpenAI

Generative AI chatbot by OpenAI

The fastest consumer-software takeoff in history and the public debut of generative AI.

Conversational AI for everyone.

A chat wrapper around GPT-3.5 made large language models tangible. 1 million users in 5 days, 100 million in two months. Recast search, coding, writing, and student work.

Opened the generative-AI era to non-specialists.

Filed notes

  • RLHF-tuned conversational interface
  • Free public access to a frontier LLM
  • Plugin/tool-use trajectory

Units. 100 million monthly users within ~2 months of launch

SIC

7372

Prepackaged Software

NAICS

513210

Software Publishers

Official

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