ChatGPT
Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place. Get started for free or download the app.
ChatGPT is commercial AI assistants software made by OpenAI. It was first released in 2022. Its English Wikipedia article has about 731k readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- OpenAI
- Since
- 2022
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 731k a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- OpenAI's AI assistant for chat, writing, coding, image generation, web search, file analysis and agent tasks, with Team and Enterprise plans.
- Adopt it when
- You want the most widely used general AI assistant, with business plans that keep your data out of training.
- Watch out
- Answers can be confidently wrong, and staff using personal accounts can leak company data.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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Every program, ChatGPT included, runs on a microchip.
The description is the maker's own, quoted as written. Facts come from Wikipedia and refresh weekly. Readers are counted on Wikipedia's mobile site only, because automated traffic that Wikimedia does not flag inflates desktop counts.