File 001 · Category Openers
Record 009 · Software · 2022
22.09.SChatGPT
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




