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What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant built on OpenAI's GPT family of large language models.
Generative AI
ChatGPT
By Glintr Editorial TeamReviewed by Glintr Learn ReviewersUpdated 5 min readArea: Generative AI
Definition
ChatGPT is a widely-used conversational AI product from OpenAI, built on the GPT series of large language models. It is used for writing, research, analysis, coding and workflow automation.
Real-world examples
- Drafting a first version of a blog post.
- Explaining a piece of code line by line.
- Summarising a long report into bullet points.
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