The single most explosive consumer software launch in the recorded history of the commercial internet reached its 100-millionth user in the specific interval of time between an American Thanksgiving weekend and a Chinese New Year — approximately the same duration as a typical American academic semester. The comparison metrics that the UBS analysts assembled in [...] The post When OpenAI released ChatGPT as a free research preview on November 30, 2022, the software reached 100 million users world