{"id":244954,"date":"2024-07-18T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/who-created-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-and-who-owns-it-today\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:29","slug":"who-created-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-and-who-owns-it-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/who-created-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-and-who-owns-it-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Who created AI chatbot ChatGPT and who owns it today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/the-chatgpt-logo-in-the-background-is-the-planet-e-G3hN0AKzQeO4T8n2awfObQ-GhyxR7S8RgK3Qd6-zYnKFw-900x506.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/chatgpt\/\">ChatGPT<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">might have revolutionized technology as we know it, but for the average person, the generative AI tool and its parent company can seem enigmatic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whos behind one of the most game-changing consumer tech products we\u2019ve seen so far this century?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who created ChatGPT?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ChatGPT was created by American AI research company <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OpenAI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The firm is arguably the most famous AI research and development company in the space. While its flagship product ChatGPT burst onto the scene in 2022, OpenAI has been around since December 2015, and was co-founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/tag\/sam-altman\/\">Sam Altman,<\/a> Elon Musk, <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-openai\/\">and others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Altman has served as CEO of the company since 2013 \u2014 save for an awkward few days in 2023 where he was briefly fired from the position <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/sam-altman-to-return-as-openai-ceo-just-days-after-being-ousted\/\">before being reinstated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Up until 2019, OpenAI was a non-profit organization, but it is now for-profit and worth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/16\/technology\/openai-artificial-intelligence-deal-valuation.html\">an estimated $80 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How does ChatGPT work?<\/h2>\n<p><noscript><iframe title=\"How ChatGPT Works? | Working of ChatGPT in 6 Minutes | ChatGPT For Beginners | Simplilearn\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4qGrteTY1EM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company\u2019s artificial intelligence model has become renowned for its capacity to understand and respond to textual instructions. The chatbot uses natural language processing (NLP) GPT-4 (generative pre-trained transformer) technology \u2014 but \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/tag\/generative-ai\/\">generative<\/a>\u201d is the keyword here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/artificial-intelligence-vs-machine-learning-whats-the-difference\/\">generative AI models<\/a> like ChatGPT is to create something from a prompt. That prompt could be to explain the definition of a word, to brainstorm related ideas, or even tell you a story or write a poem\u2014 ChatGPT can do it all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Who owns ChatGPT?<\/h2>\n<p>As mentioned, ChatGPT is owned by tech company OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of OpenAI in turn is Sam Altman. Born in 1985, Altman is a Stanford University dropout who has been part of Open AI since the start.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, OpenAI was founded by Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman. But different people comprise the board of the non-profit, OpenAI Inc, and Open AI the business.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the launch, the company\u2019s board of non-profit OpenAI Inc included Altman, Brockman, Sutskever, Schulman, and Zaremba. Meanwhile, additional members of the non-profit board specifically included Adam D\u2019Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.<\/p>\n<p>As for Open AI\u2019s executive board, it consists of Altman as President, Brockman as co-founder, Sutskever as Chief Scientist. Other executive employees of OpenAI include\u00a0 Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and <span style=\"font-family: var(--list--font-family); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/openai-elon-musk\/\">Musk left OpenAI<\/a> before it all kicked off in November 2022, partly to make his own AI bot <a href=\"https:\/\/x.ai\/\">Grok<\/a> and partly to focus, presumably, on his <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/employees-saved-elon-musk-from-himself-twitter-files\/\">takeover of the platform X<\/a> which was then referred to as Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3>Is OpenAI owned by Microsoft?<\/h3>\n<p>A common misconception is that OpenAI is owned by Microsoft, but while the two companies work closely together as partners, OpenAI isn\u2019t a subsidiary of Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Microsoft is what\u2019s known as a key strategic investor in the company. The tech giant first invested in OpenAI in 2019, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/microsoft-invests-in-and-partners-with-openai\/\">$1 billion investment,<\/a> and invested a further $13 billion as of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/04\/08\/microsofts-complex-bet-on-openai-brings-potential-and-uncertainty.html\">April 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition to responsibly advance cutting-edge AI research and democratize AI as a new technology platform,\u201d Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this next phase of our partnership, developers and organizations across industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models, and toolchain with Azure to build and run their applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--heading--font-family); font-size: var(--heading--font-size-h2); font-weight: var(--heading--font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--heading--letter-spacing-h2); color: var(--global--color-primary);\">When was ChatGPT released?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT was released as a public demo on November 30, 2022. Back then, the humble chatbot was limited to answering questions with text-based responses, but even that was enough to cause a stir and lead to the AI model going mega-viral.<\/p>\n<p>According to Greg Brockman, who was OpenAI\u2019s then-CEO, the app <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gdb\/status\/1599683104142430208\">surpassed 1 million users<\/a> in just five days. Just two months later, a UBS study (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/02\/08\/what-is-chatgpt-viral-ai-chatbot-at-heart-of-microsoft-google-fight.html\">CBNC<\/a>) reported that the application had approximately 100 million monthly active users.<\/p>\n<p>So, the February 2023 worldwide release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/chatgpt-openai-pricing-explainer-everything-to-know\/\">subscription-based ChatGPT Plus<\/a> felt like the next logical step for the company, as did the release of their updated ChatGPT model, GPT-4, the following month.<\/p>\n<h2>When is ChatGPT-5 being released?<\/h2>\n<p>An exact <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/chatgpt-5-release-date-price-and-what-we-know-so-far\/\">ChatGPT-5 release date<\/a> hasn\u2019t been specified, but we know that OpenAI is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dd9ba2f6-f509-42f0-8e97-4271c7b84ded\">in the process of training<\/a> the GPT-5 model. Back in February, during an appearance at the Dubai World Governments Summit (WGS), Altman said that ChatGPT-5 is \u201cgoing to be smarter\u201d than previous language models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like that this model is going to get a little bit better, it\u2019s because we\u2019re going to make them all smarter, it\u2019s going to be better across the board,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/special-coverage\/world-governments-summit-2024\/chat-gpt-transformative-for-education-sam-altman-tells-wgs-in-dubai-rzp4n4p2\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current ChatGPT Plus subscription is $20 a month, but it\u2019s entirely possible that once Chat GPT-5 is released, Chat GPT-4 in turn will become more affordable and more widely used.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/who-created-chatgpt\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] ChatGPT might have revolutionized technology as we know it, but for the average person, the generative AI tool and its parent company can seem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}