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Open AI has a new domain name forChatGPT, and it’s a good one.

This joins chatgpt.com and the impressive ai.com as URLs pointing toOpenAIs nearly two-year-old chatbot.

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Why does OpenAI need chat.com?

He says they are different tracks and in recent announcements, the letters GPT play less of a role.

GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer and harks back to the days when OpenAI was a research lab.

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The first models were all named GPT- and then a number.

It wasnt until ChatGPT launched, built on GPT-3.5 that the company hit mainstream attention.

Whats the story behind the domain?

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This was a Wild West era for online communication.

The domain was owned by Cnet for some time and pointed to download.com.

He said somebody would build a massively successful product on top of it.

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This was when ChatGPT was already a year old and a success.

This suggests the deal was for a cost sale with a potential stock buy-in as part of the process.

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