Happy birthday, ChatGPT! AI bot turns one, nostlagic Sam Altman tweets 'what a year it's been'

Happy birthday, ChatGPT!

Time flies, and how!

ChatGPT - a large language model developed by OpenAI - turned a year old on Thursday. It was exactly a year ago, on November 30, 2022, that ChatGPT came to life, and went on to upend the world of tech, causing a major disruption, keenly watched by tech geeks and users alike. Today it has become the fastest app to cross 100 million users.


Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (and a man who has made much news in November thanks to all the corporate shenanigans being played out over his ouster and subsequent reinstatement), was one of the first ones to wish the bot on its first birthday.

A seemingly overwhelmed Altman, in his tweet, introspected on the year gone by.


He hit flashback mode, and recalled that "a year ago tonight we were probably just sitting around the office putting the finishing touches on chatgpt before the next morning’s launch."

As soon as he tweeted, users shared their thoughts on the tool having become a part of their lives. Responses ranged from being "unreal" and "made my life interesting" to "a high school student wrote the term paper".



Also known as Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, ChatGPT was created on GPT - 3.5, a language model developed by OpenAI. The early model of ChatGPT was exclusively used for research purposes.

The chatbot became a global phenomenon as it cracked several competitive examinations. It went viral after it passed Wharton School MBA exams, law tests at the University of Minnesota, American Medical licensing exams with flying colours! However, the bot also hit headlines for the wrong reasons as it presented incorrect information as accurate facts.

Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has demonstrated the immense potential of large language models (LLMs). It also sparked doomsday predictions in global job markets, disrupted education systems and drawn millions of users, from big banks to app developers with its ability to generate human-quality text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer questions in an informative way.

Earlier in August, OpenAI in a company blog post wrote that 80 per cent of Fortune 500 companies have adopted ChatGPT in some form. At the company’s first developer conference in November 2023, CEO Sam Altman announced that the tool had reached 100 million weekly active users.

ChatGPT's popularity peaked thanks to its ability to answer user questions with very detailed and concise natural language output. Some, impressed by its language creation and comprehension capabilities, concurred that the chatbot exhibited general intelligence.