ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that has helped kick-start a whole new AI industry, with plenty of competition from the likes of Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Meta’s Llama 3, and Anthropic’s Claude. This article will tell you what “GPT” stands for and what it tells you about the AI platform.
What does GPT stand for in ChatGPT?
The "GPT" in "ChatGPT" stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer:
However, ChatGPT's developer, OpenAI, also uses the term 'GPT' for the names of the language models that ChatGPT runs on.
When ChatGPT debuted in 2022, it launched with the GPT-3 language model, which was the most advanced publicly available model at the time. It was trained on 175 billion parameters (bits of data) that the AI uses to weight its responses and do so in a way that is understandable to humans. It used training data that went back to 2020 and had the ability to interact with text.
