On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman merely tweeted "chat.com," announcing that the company had acquired the short domain name, which now points to the company's ChatGPT AI assistant when visited in a web browser. As of Thursday morning, "chatgpt.com" still hosts the chatbot, with the new domain serving as a redirect.

GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer and harks back to the days when OpenAI was a research lab. The first models were all named GPT- and then a number. It wasn’t un

On Wednesday, Sam Altman cryptically posted "chat.com" on X. Of course, the URL redirects to ChatGPT's homepage. Speculation is that OpenAI wanted a short domain name,

OpenAI bought Chat.com, adding to its collection of high-profile domain names. As of this morning, Chat.com now redirects to OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the acquisition via email. OpenAI declined to say how much it paid for Chat.com.

OpenAI has quietly picked up Chat.com, and now visitors to the domain are redirected straight to ChatGPT, the company’s flagship AI-powered chatbot. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the move with a subtle post on X,

OpenAI has bought the domain chat.com. Clicking on it automatically routes you to the ChatGPT website. The AI giant's CEO Sam Altman announced this on Thursday, November 7, 2024, by simply posting the URL on X (Formerly Twitter) without any description or reasoning.