As it pursues commercial applications for the immensely popular chatbot, OpenAI is making its ChatGPT tool accessible for enterprises to include into their own apps.
ChatGPT was released to the public in November, and the firm is now selling paid access to organisations and developers that want to leverage the software’s capacity to answer queries and create text in their own apps and products.
Clients will be able to connect their apps to ChatGPT’s application programming interface, which will provide them with the same version of the GPT 3.5 model that OpenAI employs at a cost ten times less than OpenAI’s current models.
Instacart Inc., Shopify Inc., and Snap Inc. are among the firms that have already integrated the ChatGPT API into their products, according to a blog post published on Wednesday by San Francisco-based OpenAI.
While OpenAI has generated significant public interest in the most well-known artificial intelligence systems of the last year — ChatGPT, which generates text, and image generator DALL-E — the company also needs to figure out how to accelerate revenue growth while also paying for the massive cloud-computing bills these massive AI models rack up.
In January, OpenAI negotiated a $10 billion increase in Microsoft Corp.’s investment in the firm. OpenAI launched a waitlist last month for corporations and developers who want to use ChatGPT in their own apps, as well as a premium version for individuals.
The AI research firm recognised that ChatGPT has recently gone down too frequently and stated that it will prioritise enterprises and consumers running public apps on the platform.
“For the past two months our uptime has not met our own expectations nor that of our users,” OpenAI wrote. “Our engineering team’s top priority is now stability of production use-cases.”
Instacart, the largest online grocery delivery firm in the United States, will integrate ChatGPT into its shopping app, combining it with Instacart’s own AI and product library.
Consumers will be able to ask the app to do things like recommend healthy selections for youngsters and provide directions for making amazing fish tacos, according to the business. Shopify will also integrate the chatbot in its consumer app; when customers search for a product, ChatGPT will propose similar items.
According to Quizlet Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Lex Bayer, the business is developing an AI tutoring experience that will leverage ChatGPT’s question and response format to emulate the Socratic method.
ChatGPT may also make up a tale in the language being studied and test reading comprehension, or take a vocabulary list and transform it into a paragraph for foreign language acquisition.
It’s a more welcoming application for the chatbot for teachers, who have largely been concerned about pupils using it to cheat and automate schoolwork.
“With any new technology there’s going to be some apprehension,” Bayer said. “We’re constantly pushing the bounds of technology and using it in the right way that’s really constructive for students. “
Snap Inc., the developer of the photo-sharing app Snapchat, revealed on Monday that it is also a new ChatGPT customer, offering an AI-enabled chatbot to Snapchat Plus subscribers, who pay $3.99 per month to join.
Snapchat’s My AI, which has been trained to have a “unique tone and personality,” may be used to offer birthday present ideas, meal recipes, and “even write a haiku about cheese for your cheddar-obsessed pal,” according to the firm. Then again, who doesn’t?
Additionally, OpenAI announced access to their Whisper voice recognition technology, which can be used for transcription, on Wednesday.
