It's been a year since ChatGPT was released (yeah, feels longer than that doesn't it?). We’re going to look through it’s achievements, and then run a few episodes taking a closer look at the competition hot on OpenAI's heels

So this will be the first in a short 5-part mini series where we’re talking about the alternatives to Open AI - given the Fiasco which has dominated headlines for the past 3 weeks - details of which are still emerging.

Some stats on ChatGPT from the past 12 months

ChatGPT was an overnight success, attracting one million users in the first five days of its launch, according to Sam Altman.
Today, the chatbot has more than 100 million users.
OpenAI’s website is visited more than 1.5 billion times every month, according to SimilarWeb data as of September.
Nearly half of Americans have heard about ChatGPT, according to a recent poll by YouGov.
In February 2023, OpenAI released ChatGPT Plus at $20 per month. Plus users can access GPT-4, while the free version of ChatGPT is powered by GPT-3.5.
OpenAI is valued by private investors at up to $90 billion. That’s nearly 35 times what the company was worth two years ago.
OpenAI’s headcount has more than doubled since launching ChatGPT. Currently it employs about 770.

Using AI on youtube - see what Alex Pap was laughing so hard at at the start of this episode https://www.youtube.com/@genieai/podcasts

Topics discussed: GPT store, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Anthropic, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Darth Vader, Fired by the board, Open AI CEO

Links:

timeline of the Open AI Fiasco https://www.axios.com/2023/11/22/openai-microsoft-sam-altman-ceo-chaos-timeline
Open AI board tried to hire Anthropic CEO https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/report-openai-tried-and-failed-to-hire-anthropic-ceo-to-replace-sam-altman/