Last Updated on October 15, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): Rohan Mistry Originally published on Towards AI. The 47-Step Journey Your Message Takes From Your Keyboard to AI Response (And Why It Costs $0.03 You open ChatGPT. You type: “Explain quantum computing.” Source: Image by author.The article outlines the complex journey a query takes from when a user types it into ChatGPT until the AI generates a response, highlighting the numerous computational and infrastructural steps involved,...
