ChatGPT has simply paid a reported 15.5 million {dollars} for the URL chat.com, making it simpler to get to ChaGPT. Now once you kind Chat.com into your browser you’ll be redirected to ChatGPT.com. The transfer sparks rumors that the ChatGPT chatbot and search engine could possibly be about to bear a rebrand so it’s higher in a position to compete with rivals like Google.
The redirect was introduced on X.com on Wednesday when Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted a tweet containing simply the URL, chat.com.
The announcement prompted fast hypothesis from X.com customers about whether or not OpenAI was going to drop the “GPT” a part of the title altogether.
The chat.com area was beforehand owned by Dharmesh Shah, the founder and CTO of HubSpot, who claimed in a LinkedIn put up to have paid $10 million for it in 2023, however had bought it a few months later for “greater than I paid for it”. On the time he stated, “I am not at liberty to reveal particulars on who the purchaser was or the value paid. Sorry.”
What’s in a reputation?
It’s simple to overlook how new the generative AI subject is. As with every rising subject of expertise, model names have a tendency to return and go fairly rapidly. Google began by calling its AI Bard, however this was dropped in favor of Gemini. Not too long ago there was hypothesis that Microsoft is not pleased with its Copilot AI title, and is contemplating “Home windows Intelligence”. The transfer can be maybe seen as just a little too near what Apple is doing with Apple Intelligence.
The GPT a part of ChatGPT stands for Generative Pre-training Transformer and refers to the kind of giant language mannequin (LLM) that makes use of the transformer structure however is hardly a superb model title. The URL chat.com is rather more memorable, and as Sharmesh Shah stated when he initially bought the URL “chat.com is completely sensible by way of simplicity, shortness and being completely *on level* and assembly the second. It instantly creates person belief. Any individual (not me) will construct a massively profitable product/firm on it.”
OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, not too long ago launched the equally cumbersomely-named AI search engine, ChatGPT search, regardless of proudly owning the rather more catchy URL, SearchGPT. In September the corporate introduced that it could be releasing a brand new collection of LLMs beginning with “o1”, which not too long ago noticed the sunshine of day, only for a number of quick hours, by mistake.
