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This was inevitable, not sure why it's newsworthy. ChatGPT blew up because it brought LLM tech to the masses in an easily accessible way and was novel at the mainstream level.
The majority of people don't have a use for chat bots day-to-day, especially one that's as censored and outdated as ChatGPT (its dataset is from over 2 years ago). Casual users would want it for simple stuff like quickly summarizing current events or even as a Google search-like repository of info. Can't use it for that when even seemingly innocuous queries/prompts are met with ChatGPT scolding you for being offensive, or that its dataset is old and not current. Sure, it was fun to have it make your grocery lists and workout plans, but that novelty eventually wears off as it's not very practical all the time.
I think LLMs in the form of ChatGPT will truly become ubiquitous when they can train in real time on up-to-date data. And since that's very unlikely to happen in the near future, I think OpenAI has quite a bit of progress left to make before their next breakout moment comes again. Although, Sora did wow the mainstream (anyone in the AI scene has been well aware of AI generated video for awhile now), OpenAI has already said they're not making that publicly available for now (which is a good thing for obvious reasons unless strict safety measures are implemented).
The P in GPT is Pretrained. Its core to the architecture design. You would need to use some other ANN design if you wanted it to continuously update, and there is a reason we don't use those at scale atm, they scale much worse than pretrained transformers.