OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022.
OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, as a research preview. The system was based on large language models trained to generate conversational responses and was fine-tuned using human feedback. Its public release quickly attracted worldwide attention.
OpenAI had been founded in 2015 as a nonprofit artificial-intelligence research organization and later created a capped-profit subsidiary. Microsoft became a major partner and investor, while OpenAI continued developing models and products for consumers and businesses.
ChatGPT is a product, not the name of the company. OpenAI is also distinct from Google DeepMind and Anthropic, which develop their own artificial-intelligence systems. This question identifies the organization that launched ChatGPT’s original public research preview.