ChatGPT
AI Assistant
Launched
2022-11-30
Pricing
Freemium
Category
AI Assistant
About
OpenAI's conversational assistant, launched November 30, 2022, which ignited the global generative AI wave — now powered by GPT-5 with agentic capabilities.
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