ChatGPT — the widespread chatbot from OpenAI — was launched by the firm in preview kind a yr in the past and has grown in complexity and capabilities since its preliminary launch. The firm 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 lowered downtime. OpenAI’s expertise can also be used to energy Microsoft’s Bing Chat, and the firm’s personal chatbot has been up to date with help for plugins, whereas the firm additionally unveiled a way more highly effective model earlier this month.
From its arrival in November 2022 in the type of a free AI chatbot to the launch 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 method.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT powered by GPT 3.5
While OpenAI started engaged on its generative AI expertise that powers ChatGPT in 2016, the firm solely launched the instrument as a part of a free analysis preview on November 30, 2022. At the time, ChatGPT was powered by OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3.5 (GPT-3.5) fashions, however the instrument was solely educated on data as much as September 2021.
ChatGPT Plus and GPT-powered Bing introduced
Earlier this yr, OpenAI rolled out an non-obligatory subscription plan for “ChatGPT Plus” that would supply premium entry to the firm’s chatbot. While 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 by way of the Microsoft Edge internet browser.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT API, unveils plugins and GPT-4 fashions
ChatGPT customers had been beforehand restricted to accessing the chatbot by way of OpenAI’s service, however the arrival of the ChatGPT API allowed app builders and internet designers to shortly combine help for ChatGPT — resulting in a surge in apps and internet providers powered by AI chatbots. In March, the service was banned in Italy over assortment of private knowledge and an absence of age verification instruments — the ban was lifted a month later.
The agency shortly adopted up with the launch 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 a number of new enhancements and enhancements over the previous few months. It additionally added help for plugins on ChatGPT, which permit the chatbot to browse the internet and perceive code.
ChatGPT involves iOS and Android, will get highly effective new options
OpenAI’s chatbot made its solution to a smartphone by way of a devoted iOS app in May and the firm 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 customers in July.
ChatGPT gained new capabilities in September when OpenAI revealed that paying subscribers would have the ability to add pictures, 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 picture era mannequin 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 first time since GPT-3.5 was launched final yr that the firm elevated the quantity of knowledge 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 signifies that it could actually now course of as much as 300 pages of a e-book when it’s responding to a person’s question.
