ChatGPT
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- OpenAI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sam Altman — Independent; self-described 'politically homeless' (2025); former Democratic donor; $1M personal donation to Trump inaugural fund (2025)
- D · Date
- 2022
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Images
- H · Deployment
- Cloud
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist), Brad Lightcap (COO), Fidji Simo (CEO Applications), Sarah Friar (CFO), Mark Chen (SVP Research), Denise Dresser (CRO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Chat Interface
- N · Safety Issues
- May hallucinate facts and generate inaccurate or biased outputs; susceptible to prompt injection and malicious instructions; training data limited by cutoff date; can produce harmful content if not properly constrained.
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- ChatGPT: Free / Go $8 / Plus $20 / Pro from $100 (US)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- OpenAI's ChatGPT, launched November 30, 2022 as a free research preview: a sibling of InstructGPT, fine-tuned from the GPT-3.5 series with reinforcement learning from human feedback, whose dialogue format let it answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. It now has paid plans and an ad-supported free tier, which OpenAI said on August 31, 2026 helps keep ChatGPT available to more than 1 billion weekly active users.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (~$852B valuation, Mar 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- Yes
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @OpenAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Chat Interface from OpenAI, released 2022.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“ChatGPT.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/chatgpt.html
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