ChatGPT Turns One: These Were the Chatbot’s Most Notable Milestones

ChatGPT — the favored chatbot from OpenAI — was launched by the corporate in preview kind a yr in the past and has grown in complexity and capabilities since its preliminary launch. The corporate has since launched a premium subscription service that permits paying customers to entry a extra highly effective model of the chatbot together with early entry to approaching options and decreased downtime. OpenAI’s expertise can be used to energy Microsoft’s Bing Chat, and the corporate’s personal chatbot has been up to date with help for plugins, whereas the corporate additionally unveiled a way more highly effective model earlier this month.

From its arrival in November 2022 within the type of a free AI chatbot to the discharge of the highly effective new GPT-4 Turbo for paying subscribers earlier this month, there’s how ChatGPT has advanced over the course of a yr, gaining new options and performance alongside the best way.  

OpenAI launches ChatGPT powered by GPT 3.5

Whereas OpenAI started engaged on its generative AI expertise that powers ChatGPT in 2016, the corporate solely launched the device as a part of a free analysis preview on November 30, 2022. On the time, ChatGPT was powered by OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3.5 (GPT-3.5) fashions, however the device was solely educated on data as much as September 2021.

ChatGPT Plus and GPT-powered Bing introduced

Earlier this yr, OpenAI rolled out an optional subscription plan for “ChatGPT Plus” that would offer premium entry to the corporate’s chatbot. Whereas customers might — and nonetheless can — entry the chatbot at no cost, paying prospects would get entry to new options, early entry to unreleased options, and fewer downtime. Days after OpenAI’s announcement, Microsoft unveiled a brand new model of Bing that was powered by OpenAI’s GPT fashions. Bing Chat was rolled out to customers on smartphones and through the Microsoft Edge net browser.

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

ChatGPT customers had been beforehand restricted to accessing the chatbot through OpenAI’s service, however the arrival of the ChatGPT API allowed app builders and net designers to shortly combine help for ChatGPT — resulting in a surge in apps and net companies powered by AI chatbots. In March, the service was banned in Italy over assortment of non-public knowledge and an absence of age verification instruments — the ban was lifted a month later.

The agency shortly adopted up with the discharge of GPT-4, a robust replace over the previous mannequin, that was built-in in ChatGPT and Bing Chat — you need to use GPT-4 on the latter at no cost, and it has picked up several new improvements and enhancements over the past few months. It additionally added help for plugins on ChatGPT, which permit the chatbot to browse the net and perceive code. 

ChatGPT involves iOS and Android, will get highly effective new options

OpenAI’s chatbot made its option to a smartphone via a dedicated iOS app in Might and the corporate allowed customers to entry a model of the app powered by GPT-3.5 at no cost, whereas paying subscribers might entry GPT-4 for higher solutions and extra detailed data. The app was launched for Android users in July.

ChatGPT gained new capabilities in September when OpenAI revealed that paying subscribers would be capable to add photographs, or use the ChatGPT cell app to ask queries with their voice — this characteristic was later rolled out to all customers. The chatbot was additionally upgraded with help for the image generation model DALL-E 3, for ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise prospects.

OpenAI unveils GPT4 Turbo with superior capabilities

Earlier this month, the AI agency introduced GPT-4 Turbo, an enhanced model of OpenAI’s GPT-4 mannequin. It was additionally the primary time since GPT-3.5 was launched final yr that the corporate elevated the quantity of data the chatbot was educated on — whereas GPT 4 and older fashions can entry knowledge as much as September 2021, GPT-4 Turbo can view data as much as April 2023. Its context window is now 128k, which implies that it will probably now course of as much as 300 pages of a ebook when it’s responding to a person’s question.