Releasing ChatGPT made OpenAI the poster company of the AI race. But winning it is proving really hard.

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• ChatGPT put OpenAI at the forefront of the drive to build human-like AI.
• But the momentum of that hugely impactful launch has been tough to maintain.
• The company has had PR setbacks and development snags.

"Try talking with it here," Sam Altman wrote on X, linking to an "early demo" of ChatGPT.

He gave some thoughts on "language interfaces" and how people...