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Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL?


ChatGPT now lives at chat.com.

This is made possible by Generative A.I,” Shah wrote in a LinkedIn post announcing the purchase — which chat.com briefly redirected to before he resold it. After the sale, Domain Name Wire noted that Shah had mentioned another buyer had been interested in the purchase and speculated he’d flipped it to them. In September, the company announced a new series of reasoning models starting with “o1.” At the time, former chief research officer Bob McGrew told The Verge he hoped that the o1 series would mark “the first step of newer, more sane names” to better communicate the company’s work.

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