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/