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Act III · The ChatGPT moment

Closed modelOpenAI

ChatGPT launches

GPT-3.5 plus RLHF, packaged as a free chat box and launched as a "research preview".

1M in 5 daysusers; about 100M monthly users within two months, by UBS's estimate

Why it matters

The watershed of AI history: large models entered everyday life, and every big company scrambled to respond.

Costs and controversy

Hallucinations, knowledge cutoffs and jailbreaks were all exposed to the public.

Built on

InstructGPT

Led to

GPT-4LLaMAERNIE BotClaude

Source: openai.com ↗

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