ChatGPT Reaches 100 Million Users Amidst 2023 Turmoil and Lawsuits
OpenAI's ChatGPT experiences massive growth in 2023, hitting 100 million weekly users while facing leadership chaos and a major copyright lawsuit from The New York Times.
ChatGPT reaches a massive milestone of 100 million weekly active users in 2023 as OpenAI heavily invests in the popular AI chatbot. At the company's first developer conference in November, OpenAI unveils powerful updates like GPT-4 Turbo, a multimodal API, the new GPT Store for custom bots, and the upgraded DALL-E 3 image generator.
The year ends on a tumultuous note for the AI giant. CEO and co-founder Sam Altman faces a sudden firing and swift reinstatement, sparking concerns about the company's future direction. This internal chaos opens the door for competitors to capitalize on the uncertainty surrounding OpenAI's leadership.
Legal troubles also emerge as The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement. The newspaper claims that millions of its articles are used to train AI models without permission and demands the destruction of the offending training data alongside billions of dollars in damages.