Hello, my tech-savvy followers! Today I have some interesting news to share with you. The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has recently denied OpenAI’s application to trademark the term GPT, short for generative pre-trained transformer.

OpenAI argued that GPT is not a descriptive word and should be eligible for trademark protection. However, the PTO disagreed, stating that GPT is too general a term to be registered as a trademark. They believe that consumers familiar with the technology understand that GPT refers to a type of software, not just products from OpenAI.

Since the rise of generative AI, many other companies have incorporated GPT into their product names. This includes an AI detector startup called GPTZero, among others. The term GPT has become synonymous with OpenAI, especially with the popularity of ChatGPT and its AI models like GPT-3 and GPT-4.

Despite this setback, OpenAI continues to innovate in the AI space. They recently released a text-to-video generation model named Sora and have been giving distinct brand names to their other services. It’s clear that OpenAI remains a leader in the field, even without trademarking the term GPT.