Everything You Need to Know About AI Chatbots
By Daniel Scott / Dec 22, 2024
ChatGPT, the text-generating AI developed by OpenAI, has revolutionized the digital landscape since its debut in November 2022. Initially designed to enhance productivity through essay and code writing with brief text prompts, it has grown into a colossal platform with an impressive 300 million weekly active users. The year 2024 has been particularly momentous for OpenAI, marked by collaborations, technological advancements, and new product launches. Among the highlights are the partnership with Apple for the generative AI service, Apple Intelligence, the unveiling of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the much-anticipated text-to-video model, Sora. OpenAI concluded the year with a "12 Days of OpenAI" event, showcasing a series of new product reveals and features, including the Sora model, real-time vision capabilities in Advanced Voice Mode, and a preview of the new "reasoning" model family: o3 and o3-mini. For a comprehensive review of the announcements, visitors can refer to the live blog. Despite these achievements, OpenAI faced internal challenges, including the departure of key executives such as co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati. The company also faced legal battles, with lawsuits from Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers over copyright infringement and an injunction from Elon Musk to halt OpenAI's shift to a for-profit entity. Below is a detailed timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the most recent, which has been continuously updated throughout the year. For further inquiries, the ChatGPT FAQ section provides additional information.