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ChatGPT launched from OpenAI on November 30, 2022, and its growth remains one of the fastest consumer product adoptions in software history — reportedly reaching an estimated 100 million users within about two months of launch, a pace that caught even OpenAI's own leadership by surprise and helped trigger the broader wave of generative-AI investment and product launches that followed across the entire tech industry. The product's core interface — a simple back-and-forth chat window — was a deliberate simplification of the underlying GPT language model technology OpenAI had already been developing for years, and that plain conversational format turned out to be the missing piece that made large language models genuinely accessible to non-technical users for the first time. ChatGPT has since expanded well beyond text chat to include image generation, voice conversation, web browsing, and the ability to run code and analyze uploaded files, evolving from a single-purpose chatbot into a broader general-purpose assistant that OpenAI has continued to update with new underlying models at a rapid pace. ChatGPT's combination of first-mover timing, a radically simple interface, and OpenAI's continued rapid iteration has made it the single most recognized consumer AI product in the world, and the name itself has become a generic shorthand for AI chatbots the way "Google" became shorthand for web search.

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