OpenAI unveiled a market on Monday that permits customers to entry personalised synthetic intelligence “apps” for tasks like teaching math or designing stickers, signaling an ambition to expand its consumer business.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared the updates at the AI lab’s first developer conference, which attracted 900 developers from around the world and marked the company’s latest attempt to capitalize on the popularity of ChatGPT by offering incentives to build in its ecosystem.
ChatGPT, launched in November 2022, now has 100 million weekly active users, Altman said.
OpenAI is calling the customized AI apps “GPTs”, which the company said are early versions of AI assistants that perform real-world tasks, such as booking flights, on behalf of a user.
It will launch a GPT Store later this month where people can share their GPTs and earn money based on the number of users. It’s a renewed effort from the company’s failed attempts to build an ecosystem of ChatGPT plugins earlier this year.
“Eventually, you’ll simply ask the pc for what you want, and it’ll do all of those duties for you,” Altman said in his keynote speech at the event in San Francisco.
“We actually imagine that gradual iterative deployment is one of the best ways to deal with the protection challenges of AI. We assume it’s particularly necessary to maneuver fastidiously in direction of this future.”
In addition to GPTs, OpenAI also released a slew of developer-focused updates, including significant cost slashing, an announcement met with loud cheers from the audience.
’HUGE BOOM’
Even before attendees were allowed to check in early Monday morning, hundreds had lined up around the block in the Mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco. Most were developers already using OpenAI technology who wanted updates.
The YouTube live stream of Altman’s speech attracted more than 40,000 viewers, and some even set up watch parties.
For its 2 million developers, OpenAI announced a new GPT-4 Turbo model, which compared to its predecessor GPT-4 is several orders of magnitude cheaper and processes much more data.
It unveiled assistant application programming interfaces (APIs) with vision and image modalities, confirming a Reuters report. It also launched a beta program for developers to fine-tune GPT-4 models.
“It’s an enormous growth for startups like us. All of a sudden, our prices went down by an element of three X, which is large,” said Flo Crivello, the founder of AI assistant startup Lindy and one of the attendees at the conference.
Crivello also acknowledged Lindy could be competing with OpenAI’s upcoming GPT bots, calling his startup’s relationship with OpenAI “sophisticated.”
Speaking to the media on Monday, Altman warned startups using OpenAI’s technology against building applications that only have simple integrations with OpenAI.
“We are planning to construct the plain options,” he said. “But there’s huge worth to constructing a deeper integration on prime of OpenAI.”
Altman mentioned he envisions a future the place every particular person has a number of GPTs that may work collectively to perform duties on their behalf.
OpenAI wants more enterprises and developers to build models to rival those developed by Anthropic and Alphabet’s Google, and open source models such as Meta Platforms’ Llama. It also competes for enterprise customers with Microsoft.
Satya Nadella, the CEO of OpenAI backer Microsoft, made a brief, surprise appearance at the conference, reiterating his support for the expensive race in building foundation models. Microsoft has invested more than $10 billion in OpenAI.
“We commit ourselves deeply to creating positive you all, as builders of those basis fashions, haven’t solely the most effective methods for coaching and inference, however probably the most compute so as to preserve pushing ahead on the frontier,” he said.
To address the concerns of big enterprises, OpenAI launched its Custom Models program, offering to create custom GPT-4 models at an “costly” price.
It matched offers from Google and Microsoft to cover any legal costs incurred by claims around copyright infringement for enterprise users.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – Reuters)
