ChatGPT launches

OpenAI releases ChatGPT; it becomes the fastest-growing consumer application in history.

What happened and why it matters

A conversational interface on top of an instruction-tuned GPT-3.5 put capable AI in front of the general public. Within two months it reportedly had 100 million users, and it triggered an industry-wide race and a wave of investment in compute.

Sources

• Introducing ChatGPT ↗ OpenAI · 30 Nov 2022