This is definitely intentional.
You can like Sama or dislike him, but he knows how to market a product. Maybe this is a bad call on his part, but it is a call.
You can like Sama or dislike him, but he knows how to market a product. Maybe this is a bad call on his part, but it is a call.
Over time, competitors catch up and first mover advantage melts away.
I wouldn’t attribute OpenAI’s success to any extremely smart marketing moves. I think a big part of their market share grab was simply going (and staying) viral for a long time. Manufacturing virality is notoriously difficult (and based on the usability and poor UI of ChatGPT early versions, it feels like they got lucky in a lot of ways)
This naming scheme is a dumpster fire. Every other comment is trying to untangle what the actual hierarchy of model performance is.
The naming is bad. Other people already said it you can "google" stuff, you can "deepseek" something, but to "chatgpt" sounds weird.
The model naming is even weirder, like, did they really avoid o2 because of oxigen?
People just say it differently, they say "ask chatgpt"