At first it looked as if the company’s business model would be to provide access to their model as a service, charging premium users $20 a month. After all, ChatGPT went from zero to 1 million users in five days and by January was up to 100 million, making it the fastest-growing app ever.

(Although it does make you wonder why his company was so taken aback when OpenAI – backed by Microsoft – launched ChatGPT last November.)īut then maybe even OpenAI was taken by surprise by what happened. He may not have envisaged the hucksterish chaos currently reigning on the app stores, but at least he gets full marks for prescience. We’re beginning to see why, in 2016, Google’s boss Sundar Pichai was talking about “AI everywhere”. If anyone was looking for an example of a feeding frenzy, this is it.

Same thing over in the Android universe, where something similar is under way, except that you find even more AI wannabes there than on the rarefied heights of the Apple store. Interestingly, while the official OpenAI app is free, all of these cheery parasites, though free to download, require in-app purchases once you are enmeshed in their clutches. Or how about ChatGPro (“The Best AI Chat of 2023”)? Or Chat AI – Ask Open Chatbot (“The ultimate AI chat app that can assist you with anything and everything you need”)? Anything and everything, eh? And so on, ad infinitum. Despite that, though, the UK store was positively groaning with “ChatGPT” apps – of which I counted 25 before losing the will to live.įor example, there’s AI Chat – Chatbot AI Assistant (“Experience the power of AI! Create Essays, Emails, Resumes or Any Text!”). This is because – as I belatedly discovered – it’s currently only available via the US app store and will be rolled out to other jurisdictions in due course. C heered by the news that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, had released a free iPhone app for the language model, I went to the Apple app store to download it, only to find that it was nowhere to be found.

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