ChatGPT: Everything You Need to Know About the Artificial Intelligence Chatbot.
We present a guide on ChatGPT that facilitates understanding of the text generation system by OpenAI, known for its popularity. In this document, we summarize the latest updates and answer the most frequently asked questions.
Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT, the AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, has had a significant impact worldwide. Initially conceived as a tool to boost productivity by drafting essays and code from brief prompts, it has grown to reach 300 million weekly active users. The year 2024 was crucial for OpenAI, with a series of important milestones, including a partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering called Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the anticipated introduction of Sora, its text-to-video model.
However, OpenAI has also faced challenging moments, such as the departure of high-level executives, including its co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati. Additionally, the company has been the subject of lawsuits from Alden Global Capital newspapers, alleging copyright infringement, and received an order from Elon Musk to halt its transition to a for-profit entity.
Looking ahead to 2025, OpenAI is dealing with the perception that it is losing ground in the AI race to Chinese competitors like DeepSeek. The company is working to strengthen its relationships with Washington while advancing an ambitious data center project and preparing for one of the largest funding rounds in history.
A timeline of updates and releases for ChatGPT has been generated, starting with the most recent. Among the key highlights is the potential launch of GPT-4.1, which could occur next week. Furthermore, OpenAI has begun updating ChatGPT to allow the chatbot to remember previous conversations and adapt its responses based on that context, initially launched for ChatGPT Pro and Plus users.
OpenAI is also working on a watermarking feature for images generated with GPT-4o. It has been observed that the company is offering its ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month, for free to college students in the U.S. and Canada through the end of May. Since the implementation of the image generator, ChatGPT users have created over 700 million images.
On the other hand, it has been reported that the operational costs of OpenAI's o3 model could be significantly higher than initially estimated. Altman, OpenAI's CEO, mentioned that capacity issues could delay the launch of new products, a concern given the increasing demand.
OpenAI plans to launch a new “open” language model, the first since GPT-2, and has also removed restrictions on its image generation. Additionally, it has decided to adopt the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from Anthropic. However, the popularity of images generated in the Studio Ghibli style has raised legal concerns regarding copyright infringement.
As OpenAI anticipates an increase in revenue to $12.7 billion by 2025, significant organizational changes have been presented. Brad Lightcap takes on a prominent role in the company's global expansion, while Sam Altman focuses more on research and products.
As OpenAI rolls out new tools and updates, such as its AI Operator agent and improvements in voice generation and transcription, the company has also renewed its focus on data retention and privacy-related complaints, highlighting the complex environment in which it currently operates.
