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ChatGPT Launch Anniversary: Google Code Red, AI Race 2026

OpenAI launched ChatGPT on 30 November 2022 and it reached one million users in five days. On 21 December 2022 The New York Times reported that Google had decl…

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THE SPARK

Google invents the Transformer

Google researchers published 'Attention Is All You Need'. The Transformer became the T in GPT and the base of Gemini.

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THE LAUNCH

OpenAI releases ChatGPT

A free research preview on a GPT-3.5 model. It crossed one million users in five days.

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THE ALARM

Google's Code Red

The New York Times reported Google management declared a code red, redirecting teams to answer the chatbot threat to Search.

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THE ANSWER

Bard, Bing and a $100bn slip

Google announced Bard; Microsoft launched a ChatGPT-style Bing. A wrong fact in Bard's demo hit Alphabet shares by about 7.7%.

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THE UPGRADE

GPT-4 and Gemini

OpenAI launched GPT-4 in March. Google answered in December with Gemini, a multimodal model family.

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THE REBRAND

Bard becomes Gemini

Google renamed Bard as Gemini and launched an app and a paid tier. AI Overviews reached US Search in May.

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THE REVERSAL

OpenAI's own code red

After Gemini 3 led benchmarks, Sam Altman called a code red to improve ChatGPT, delaying other projects.

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THE BILLIONS

Both past a billion users

The Gemini app passed 1 billion monthly users; ChatGPT reported 1.2 billion weekly users.

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AT FOUR

ChatGPT turns four

GPT-6 is in ChatGPT, Gemini powers the new Siri, and Gemini 4 is reported close. The race is now about finished tasks.

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