CEO Mark Zuckerberg's new platform has undeniable advantage over alternatives
Meta unveiled a new app called Threads that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. (Richard Drew/The Associated Press) Meta launched its microblogging app Threads on Thursday, the latest among several platforms that have been designed to rival Twitter as users jump ship from the beleaguered social media site.
The company behind Instagram and Facebook pitched Threads as an app that will do for text and dialogue what Instagram did for photos and video.
"There should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will," Meta CEO Zuckerberg said on Threads, where he now has a million followers.
Thirty million people signed up for the app within 18 hours of its launch, according to the company. That rush is helped by the fact that users log into a Threads account using their Instagram username and password, lending the new platform a built-in user base. Users can also import their Instagram followers list to Threads.
Posts on Threads can be 500 characters long, with the option to attach links, photos or videos up to five minutes long. Users can follow friends or public figures (celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian have already signed up) and like, re-post or reply to their posts.
ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with the chatbot. The language model can answer questions and assist you with tasks, such as composing emails, essays, and code.
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It's currently open to use by the public for free because ChatGPT is in its research and feedback-collection phase. A paid subscription version called ChatGPT Plus launched at the beginning of February.
Who made ChatGPT?
ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an AI and research company. The company launched ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.
Also: 7 advanced ChatGPT prompt-writing tips you need to know
OpenAI is also responsible for creating DALL-E 2, a popular AI art generator, and Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system.
How big a deal is ChatGPT?
It's a big deal -- think internet-level disruption.
Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief, said on Twitter that ChatGPT had more than one million users in the first five days after it launched.
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According to analysis by Swiss bank UBS, ChatGPT is the fastest-growing 'app' of all time. The analysis estimates that ChatGPT had 100 million active users in January, only two months after its launch. For comparison, it took nine months for TikTok to reach 100 million users.
ChatGPT's success has been so massive that other companies felt compelled to release their own versions of AI chatbots, such as Google Bard, Microsoft's Bing Chat, and there's even talk of a possible AppleGPT.
Google AI is a division of Google dedicated to artificial intelligence.[1] It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai.[2]
This division has expanded with research facilities in various parts of the world such as Zurich, Paris, Israel, and Beijing.[3] In 2023, Google AI was part of the reorganization initiative that elevated its head, Jeff Dean, to the position of chief scientist at Google.[4] This reorganization involved the merging of Google Brain and DeepMind, a UK-based company that Google acquired in 2014 that operated separately from the company’s core research.[5]
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