Inside OpenAI: How does ChatGPT Ship So Quickly?

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a 🔒 subscriber-only issue 🔒 of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. OpenAI might be the hottest company in tech right now. The company is behind the popular large language-based model, ChatGPT, and also built the GPT-3, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models which several AI coding assistants use, such as GitHub Copilot. The CEO of the company is Sam Altman, formerly president of Y Combinator. ChatGPT launched in November 2022, and took the world by storm. It’s safe to say this product provided applied AI with its biggest “wow” moment, and has been the catalyst for a surge in AI investment, industry-wide. ChatGPT has passed 100M weekly active users, as announced by CEO Sam Altman on 6 November. Hitting this milestone in less than a year from launch is unprecedented. Since it arrived last year, it seems ChatGPT has been shipping at breakneck speed: Nov

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a 🔒 subscriber-only issue 🔒 of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. OpenAI might be the hottest company in tech right now. The company is behind the popular large language-based model, ChatGPT, and also built the GPT-3, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models which several AI coding assistants use, such as GitHub Copilot. The CEO of the company is Sam Altman, formerly president of Y Combinator. ChatGPT launched in November 2022, and took the world by storm. It