Developers revealed how the name ChatGPT came about

The night before the release, OpenAI decided to shorten the chatbot’s name to a more concise version — ChatGPT. Today, it’s one of the most famous brands in the field of AI.

The name ChatGPT emerged spontaneously just a few hours before the launch, as developers shared in OpenAI's official podcast. In the conversation, the head of the research department, Mark Chen, and the leader of the ChatGPT project, Nick Terrell, recalled how, in November 2022, they planned to launch the chatbot under the technical name Chat with GPT-3.5 — "that is, a chat with a generative, pre-trained transformer."

However, on the night before the release, the team decided to simplify the name to "ChatGPT," which, as it later turned out, was an excellent marketing decision. The concise name quickly stuck and spread virally.

GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, the architecture on which modern AI models are based.

In the podcast, they reminded listeners that ChatGPT is not the AI model itself, but rather an interface through which users can interact with different versions of GPT models. Currently, five generations of models are supported, as well as specialized variants: Codex for coding, Sora for video generation, and so on.

The most powerful model at OpenAI today is considered to be o3-pro, which was presented on June 11, 2025. It is capable of:

Conducting web searches

Analyzing documents

Writing code in Python

Recognizing images

Personalizing responses through a memory feature

Since its launch, ChatGPT has become a global phenomenon, and its name has become a part of digital culture. As the developers themselves acknowledge, the simple abbreviation turned out to be the best decision.

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