ChatGPT just got easier to find when you’re searching for something

ChatGPT has conscionable paid a reported 15.5 cardinal dollars for nan URL chat.com, making it easier to get to ChaGPT. Now erstwhile you type Chat.com into your browser you’ll beryllium redirected to ChatGPT.com. The move sparks rumors that nan ChatGPT chatbot and hunt motor could beryllium astir to acquisition a rebrand truthful it is amended capable to compete pinch rivals for illustration Google.

The redirect was announced connected X.com connected Wednesday erstwhile Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted a tweet containing conscionable nan URL, chat.com.

The announcement prompted contiguous speculation from X.com users astir whether OpenAI was going to driblet nan “GPT” portion of nan sanction altogether.

The chat.com domain was antecedently owned by Dharmesh Shah, nan laminitis and CTO of HubSpot, who claimed successful a LinkedIn post to person paid $10 cardinal for it successful 2023, but had sold it a mates of months later for “more than I paid for it”. At nan clip he said, “I'm not astatine liberty to disclose specifications connected who nan purchaser was aliases nan value paid. Sorry.”

What's successful a name?

It’s easy to hide really caller nan generative AI section is. As pinch immoderate emerging section of technology, marque names thin to travel and spell rather quickly. Google started by calling its AI Bard, but this was dropped successful favour of Gemini. Recently location has been speculation that Microsoft is not happy pinch its Copilot AI name, and is considering "Windows Intelligence". The move would beryllium possibly seen arsenic a small excessively adjacent to what Apple is doing pinch Apple Intelligence.

The GPT portion of ChatGPT stands for Generative Pre-training Transformer and refers to nan type of ample connection exemplary (LLM) that uses nan transformer architecture but is hardly a superb marque name. The URL chat.com is overmuch much memorable, and arsenic Sharmesh Shah said erstwhile he primitively purchased nan URL “chat.com is perfectly superb successful position of simplicity, shortness and being wholly *on point* and gathering nan moment. It instantly creates personification trust. Somebody (not me) will build a massively successful product/company connected it.”

OpenAI, nan makers of ChatGPT, precocious launched nan arsenic cumbersomely-named AI hunt engine, ChatGPT search, contempt owning nan overmuch much catchy URL, SearchGPT. In September nan institution announced that it would beryllium releasing a caller bid of LLMs starting pinch “o1”, which precocious saw nan ray of day, conscionable for a fewer short hours, by mistake.

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