ChatGPT was invented by the team at OpenAI, an AI research company based in San Francisco. The creation of ChatGPT was a collective effort involving many researchers, engineers, and scientists at OpenAI, with key contributions from individuals such as Ilya Sutskever (co-founder and chief scientist), Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI), Alec Radford, Dario Amodei, Greg Brockman, and Wojciech Zaremba. The model was built upon years of AI research, advances in neural networks, and the transformer architecture initially introduced by Google in 2017. OpenAI officially released ChatGPT as a public-facing conversational AI in November 2022. The invention reflects a collaborative milestone in natural language processing, stemming from foundational AI innovations, deep learning breakthroughs, and organizational vision at OpenAI.