Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

Does Kleenex?

I’ve heard plenty of people call any chatbot “chat gpt” - it’s becoming a genericized household name.

What’s the killer 2-syllable word (google, Kleenex)??

ChatGPT is a mouthful. Even copilot rolls off the tongue easier though doesn’t have the mindshare obviously.

Generic gpt would be better but you end up saying gpt-style tool, which is worse.

I think it shows really well how OpenAI was caught off guard when Chat GPT got popular and proved to be unexpectedly useful for a lot of people. They just gave it a technical name for what it was, a Generative Pre-trained Transformer model that was fine tuned for chat style interaction. If they had any plans on making a product close to what it is today they would have given it a catchier name. And now they're kind of stuck with it.

my 8 year old knows what ChatGPT is but has never heard of any other LLM (or OpenAI for that matter). They're all "chatGPT" in the same way that refers to searching the internet as "googling" (and is unaware of Bing, DDG or any other search engine).

If you invested in Kleenex at OpenAI valuations you would lose nearly all your money quite quickly.

You're not saying 'gippity' yet?

the less savvy around me simply call it "chat" and it's understood by context

"I asked the robot"

I agree but otoh it distinguishes itself as a new product class better than if they had gave it a name like Siri, Alexa, Gemini, Jeeves

Well they cant come up with version names that stand out in any way so I dont expect them to give their core product a better name anytime soon. I wish they would spend a little time this, but i guess they are too busy building?

I feel like you should trademark that.