ChatGPT Turns One 3zk52 Most Notable Moments After OpenAI Released Its Free AI Chatbot

ChatGPT has come a long way since it was released as part of a free research preview a year ago. 3b4432

Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 29 November 2023 18:58 IST

ChatGPT Turns One: Most Notable Moments After OpenAI Released Its Free AI Chatbot

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ChatGPT 3.5 was released to s in preview form on November 30, 2022

Highlights

ChatGPT was released in November 2022, exactly one year ago
OpenAI's chatbot quickly crossed the 100 million mark in two months
ChatGPT is available for free, but paying subscribers get more features

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OpenAI — was launched by the company in preview form a year ago and has grown in complexity and capabilities since its initial release. The company has since launched a subscription service that allows paying s to access a more powerful version of the chatbot along with early access to features and reduced downtime. OpenAI's technology is also used to power Microsoft's Bing Chat, and the company's own chatbot has been updated with for plugins, while the company also unveiled a much more powerful version earlier this month.

From its arrival in November 2022 in the form of a free AI chatbot to the release of the powerful new GPT-4 Turbo for paying subscribers earlier this month, there's how ChatGPT has evolved over the course of a year, gaining new features and functionality along the way.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT powered by GPT 3.5

While OpenAI began working on its generative AI technology that powers ChatGPT in 2016, the company only introduced the tool as part of a free research preview on November 30, 2022. At the time, ChatGPT was powered by OpenAI's Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3.5 (GPT-3.5) models, but the tool was only trained on information up to September 2021.

You Can Now Have Voice Conversations in ChatGPT App on iOS, Android

ChatGPT Plus and GPT-powered Bing announced

Earlier this year, OpenAI rolled out an optional subscription plan for "ChatGPT Plus" that would provide access to the company's chatbot. While s could — and still can — access the chatbot for free, paying customers would get access to new features, early access to unreleased features, and less downtime. Days after OpenAI's announcement, Microsoft unveiled a new version of Bing that was powered by OpenAI's GPT models. Bing Chat was rolled out to s on smartphones and via the Microsoft Edge web browser.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT API, unveils plugins and GPT-4 models

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ChatGPT s were previously limited to accessing the chatbot via OpenAI's service, but the arrival of the ChatGPT API allowed app developers and web designers to quickly integrate for ChatGPT — leading to a surge in apps and web services powered by AI chatbots. In March, the service was banned in Italy over collection of personal data and a lack of age verification tools — the ban was lifted a month later.

The firm quickly followed up with the release of GPT-4, a powerful update over the preceding model, that was integrated in ChatGPT and Bing Chat — you can use GPT-4 on the latter for free, and it has picked up over the past few months. It also added for plugins on ChatGPT, which allow the chatbot to browse the web and understand code.

ChatGPT comes to iOS and Android, gets powerful new features

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OpenAI's chatbot made its way to a smartphone Android s in July.

ChatGPT image generation model DALL-E 3, for ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise customers.

OpenAI unveils GPT4 Turbo with advanced capabilities

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Earlier this month, the AI firm announced GPT-4 Turbo, an enhanced version of OpenAI's GPT-4 model. It was also the first time since GPT-3.5 was released last year that the company increased the amount of information the chatbot was trained on — while GPT 4 and older models can access data up to September 2021, GPT-4 Turbo can view information up to April 2023. Its context window is now 128k, which means that it can now process up to 300 pages of a book when it is responding to a 's query.

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