ChatGPT gains a new internet address, which could be one of the most expensive in history; understand

OpenAI has purchased a new domain for its main service

This Wednesday the 6th Sam AltmannCEO of OpenAIposted a simple URL on X (formerly Twitter) that led directly to the ChatGPT: “chat.com”. In other words, the company’s main product now has a new address on the Internet, which is added to the URLs “chat.openai.com” and “chatgpt.com”.

https://t.co/n494J9IuEN

— Sam Altman (@sama) November 6, 2024

The chat.com URL was not owned by OpenAI, but by Dharmesh Shah, founder of HubSpot. When he purchased the domain, Shah said he believed chat-based user experience would be the next big technological innovation. “Communicating with computers/software through a natural language interface is much more intuitive. This is made possible by generative AI,” he said in a LinkedIn post last year.

The entrepreneur said Wednesday 6 on LinkedIn that he sold the domain to OpenAI and had previously paid $15.5 million for the address. The executive did not reveal how much he sold the chat.com domain for, but demonstrated that he made a profit from this transaction through shares of the OpenAI company.

Therefore, the “chat.com” domain may be one of the most expensive ever sold on the Internet. According to GoDaddy, a platform specializing in websites, the most expensive domain ever sold was “cars.com”, which was valued at $872 million. The value of “chat.com” would be in the top ten in the list.

New directions

For OpenAI, the removal of “GPT” from its main service address marks a first step towards a change in brand image. According to former head of development Bob McGrew, in an interview with The limitthe development of the “o1?” model, also free from the GPT nomenclature, would be the start to better communicate the company’s names and purposes. GPT stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”, i.e. a tool with the ability to generate responses from a large existing database.

Since the launch of ChatGPT, “GPT” models have always been the “brains” of intelligent chatbots, but OpenAI is changing that. The company’s image generator template, already built into ChatGPT, is the DALL-E. Additionally, the model focused on “reasoning,” the OpenAI-o1also appears on ChatGPT. As such, GPT is no longer an accurate representation of the company’s intelligent chatbot, and the acronym’s shedding signals a more diverse future for OpenAI.

Source: Terra

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