Chat GPT
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ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a -based developed by and launched on November 30, 2022, which enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. Successive prompts and replies, known as , are considered at each conversation stage as a context.
ChatGPT is built upon either or —members of OpenAI's proprietary series of (GPT) models, based on the architecture developed by —and is for conversational applications using a combination of and techniques. ChatGPT was released as a freely available research preview, but due to its popularity, OpenAI now operates the service on a . It allows users on its free tier to access the GPT-3.5-based version. In contrast, the more advanced GPT-4 based version and priority access to newer features are provided to paid subscribers under the commercial name "".
By January 2023, it had become what was then the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, gaining over 100 million users and contributing to OpenAI's growing to $29 billion. Within months, Google, , and accelerated the development of their competing products: , , and . Microsoft launched its based on OpenAI's GPT-4. It raised concern among some observers over the potential of ChatGPT and similar programs to displace or atrophy , enable , or fuel .