After two years of using the chatgpt.openai.com subdomain, OpenAI has finally migrated its popular ChatGPT platform to its new home, ChatGPT.com. OpenAI successfully acquired the domain ChatGPT.com after it settled with the former owner of chatgpt.com. However, the specifics of the settlement remain undisclosed.
It appears the team at OpenAI was surprised by the unprecedented popularity of ChatGPT as the AI startup neglected customary measures to safeguard the “ChatGPT” brand, including securing the .com domain.
Additionally, the safeguarding of the “CHATGPT” wordmark trademark was not executed with due diligence. Examination of the registered trademarks with USPTO for “CHATGPT” with the USPTO reveals a majority not affiliated with OpenAI.
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openai changed the domain of chatgpt from chat.openai to just chatgpt pic.twitter.com/3vh07bdHT8
— Sully (@SullyOmarr) May 6, 2024
Previously, OpenAI pursued a UDRP case against the former proprietor of ChatGPT.com at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Subsequently, upon the unveiling of the Whois record during the UDRP proceedings, it surfaced that the domain was owned and utilized by a company named Site Matri based in Puerto Rico.
Today, OpenAI’s ChatGPT service reigns supreme as the preeminent artificial intelligence-powered chat platform globally. Within two months, ChatGPT achieved an unparalleled milestone, amassing a remarkable 100 million monthly active users, positioning it as the fastest-growing consumer application to date.
Fueled by the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), a variant of expansive language models crafted by OpenAI housing up to 175 billion parameters, ChatGPT operates on a neural network architecture. Its training regimen entails predicting subsequent words in a sequence based on preceding ones, yielding text generation closely mirroring human speech. Capitalizing on the capabilities of expansive language models, ChatGPT and akin generative AI tools emulate natural conversational patterns to deliver text.
