The growth of ChatGPT has been unprecedented, with 500 million weekly active users, and it's growing rapidly.

Even though many struggled to build businesses with the GPT-3 API, people loved interacting with it, which led us to develop ChatGPT.

The traffic to ChatGPT was flat for a year, primarily driven by students, but has recently doubled due to new model releases that unlocked new use cases.

I use ChatGPT as a general-purpose tool, and I hope to integrate it into most aspects of my work in the future as it continues to improve.

By the time ChatGPT 3.5 was released, we identified multiple categories where businesses could thrive using the API, driven by the demand for conversational AI.

When ChatGPT was released, lawyers realized it would fundamentally change their work, prompting them to seek out AI solutions like ours.

The project that led to ChatGPT began as Web GPT, which utilized retrieval to provide information and cite sources, ultimately evolving into ChatGPT due to its unique dialogue capabilities.

Using ChatGPT, I can demonstrate its intuitive nature by asking it to provide a concise response with bullet points, showcasing its improved communication style.

We launched Character.AI about a month before ChatGPT came out in October 2022, and we scaled from 300 generations per second to over 30,000 in about 18 months.