What is GPT
OpenAI’s family of large language models. ChatGPT is the chat product built on top of them.
In plain terms
GPT is the name of OpenAI’s language models, with numbered versions marking each generation. ChatGPT is the consumer chat product powered by those models. The GPT API is how developers use the same models inside their own software, sending prompts and reading back answers. On a resume, GPT experience means the developer built software that calls OpenAI’s models.
What it tells you about a developer
GPT on a profile marks the using side of the line between using AI and building it: the developer built a product around a model OpenAI trained. The engineering skill lives in the product around the model.
Facts
- Type
- Service
- Released
- 2018
- Built by
- OpenAI
- Applied to
- AI agents & tooling