#ChatGPT

The full story of the ChatGPT launch — the five days to a million users, the hundred million users in two months, the panic in schools and universities, the excitement in offices, the existential dread in newsrooms, and what it meant that AI had crossed the threshold from specialised tool to mainstream reality. The moment AI became everyone's business.

The full story of OpenAI — the founding mission, the commercial pivot, the release of ChatGPT, the board crisis of 2023, and what it means that the organisation most explicitly committed to humanity's benefit has become the world's most commercially successful AI company. The most consequential organisation in the history of artificial intelligence, and the complicated man who leads it.