ChatGPT
It's from 2022, when you were 16.
- Maker
- OpenAI
- Type
- AI chatbot
- Debuted
- 2022
- Note
- Hit 100 million users in two months
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About
As of 2026, it's 4 years old.
ChatGPT launched in November 2022 as a 'low-key research preview' that OpenAI reportedly didn't expect anyone to care much about. It then hit 100 million users in two months — the fastest-growing consumer app in history — and abruptly made everyone an expert on 'prompts.'
Suddenly homework, cover letters, breakup texts, and wedding speeches were being quietly outsourced to a chatbot that would confidently make things up while sounding completely sure of itself.
Conversational, eerily capable, and occasionally very wrong, ChatGPT turned 'talking to a computer' from a sci-fi gag into a Tuesday — and kicked off the AI era whether the world was ready or not.
ChatGPT through the years
Launch
Released as a free research preview in November.
Mass adoption
Fastest app ever to 100 million users; GPT-4 arrives.
