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.

The launch of ChatGPT has significantly raised public awareness about AI, making it accessible beyond just large corporations.

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.

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

ChatGPT will evolve significantly over the next five years, but it will likely still be called ChatGPT.

The subscription model for ChatGPT has surprisingly worked well for us, and I didn't expect it to perform as successfully as it has.

In 2025, AI tools like ChatGPT have become as essential as having a laptop, with 90% of respondents using it regularly, surpassing even Gmail and Slack in popularity.

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.

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.