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ChatGPT released in November 2022 – Fact Check

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“ChatGPT was released in November 2022.”
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Confidence: High Checked on October 25, 2026

Summary

ChatGPT was launched by OpenAI on November 30, 2022 as a research preview, and this release date is consistently reported across numerous reliable sources.

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en.wikipedia.org
  • ChatGPT - Wikipedia

    Kevin Roose of The New York Times ... ever released to the general public". Samantha Lock of The Guardian noted that it was able to generate "impressively detailed" and "human-like" text. In The Atlantic magazine's "Breakthroughs of the Year" for 2022, Derek Thompson included ChatGPT as part of "the generative-AI eruption" that "may change our mind about how we work, how we think, and what human creativity is". Kelsey Piper of Vox wrote that "ChatGPT is the general public's first hands-on ...

simple.wikipedia.org
  • ChatGPT - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    ChatGPT has used different large language models to generate text. The first model that it used was called GPT-3.5. The GPT-4 model was released in 2023, and this model often gave better answers than GPT-3.5. More recently GPT-4o, the o1-preview and GPT-5 models were released.

history.com
chatgpt.ca
autogpt.net
scribbr.com
  • When was ChatGPT released?

    It’s not clear whether ChatGPT will stop being available for free in the future—and if so, when. The tool was originally released in November 2022 as a “research preview.” It was released for free so that the model could be tested on a very large user base.

quillbot.com
chatai.guide

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