ChatGPT turns two: What's next for the OpenAI chatbot that broke new ground for AI?

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched its first model of ChatGPT into the world. 

What was supposed to start as a test for OpenAI’s models quickly became a chatbot that became synonymous with the development of generative artificial intelligence (genAI). 

In 2024, OpenAI saw the launch of several new versions, including GPT-4 which came with faster intelligence across text, voice, and vision, and o1, a new series of models that can reason through complex tasks in science, coding, and maths.

Just a few weeks ago, OpenAI released SearchGPT, a browser extension that gives "fast, timely answers" to user queries with relevant web sources, bypassing search engines altogether. 

The company’s been dealing with a fair share of internal issues in the background, with the resignation of co-founder Ilya Sutskever, the dissolving of the company’s team researching super intelligence, and a slew of lawsuits from US-based news companies for alleged copyright infringement. 

So what’s next for OpenAI’s ChatGPT as it tries to up the ante in its third year? Euronews Next breaks it down. 

In a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) last month, OpenAI founder Sam Altman and his colleagues gave a little insight into their priorities for their third year. 

Kevin Weil, chief product officer at OpenAI, told the AMA that a "big theme" for 2025 will be whether ChatGPT can perform tasks independently. 

Altman suggested that it could look like an autonomous agent, which he would consider the company’s next "giant breakthrough". 

"AI agents," referred to as agentic AI, will let companies design the large language models (LLMs) that run their systems to automate workplace tasks.

That’s a feat that’s already being worked on by some of OpenAI’s rivals, like Google Cloud’s