[thereitgoes456]

According to Karen Hao's Empire of AI, this is only half accurate. And I trust what Karen Hao says a lot more.

OpenAI mistakenly thought Anthropic was about to launch a chatbot, and ChatGPT was a scrappy, rushed-out-the-door product made from an intermediate version of GPT-4, meant to one-up them. Of course, they were surprised at how popular it became.

[kristianp]

Do you mean an intermediate version of GPT-3? That's more the timeline I'm thinking.