The latest development on OpenAI is that the company is now making its GPT-4 generally available. It means that developers "with a history of successful payments" to OpenAI can now access GPT-4 through its API.
"Millions of developers have requested access to the GPT-4 API since March, and the range of innovative products leveraging GPT-4 is growing every day," OpenAI wrote in a blog post.
"We plan to open up access to new developers by the end of this month, and then start raising rate-limits after that depending on compute availability," the company added.
GPT-4 is the company's latest and most-advanced text-generating model. It is widely known that ChatGPT is currently using GPT-4, and it brought massive developments to the AI chatbot.
Aside From GPT-4, OpenAI Also Makes GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E, and Whisper APIs Generally Available
OpenAI also announced that it is making its GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E, and Whisper APIs generally available, too. DALL·E is the company's image-generating model, and "Whisper" refers to the company's speech-to-text model.
OpenAI also said it plans to deprecate old models available through its API to improve the efficiency of its "compute capacity." The company said its "Completions API" will retire at the beginning of 2024.
Completions API is the company's most fundamental model that provides a simple interface that can be used to simulate a chat between a user and an assistant by formatting the input accordingly.
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OpenAI's API Access for GPT-4
According to Tech Crunch, this new API access for all developers would enable the adoption of GPT-4 and other APIs from the company to developer apps, prioritizing those with notable transactions to OpenAI.
GPT-4 is the most advanced large language model (LLM) in OpenAI's current offers, which has the capability to write text and code outputs and accept both image and text inputs.
OpenAI's GPT-4
In March, OpenAI introduced GPT-4 to the world, and it is the most advanced AI development of the company that was initially intended for its suite and applications, including ChatGPT. It has links to Microsoft's Bing, with the company also adopting the new LLM from OpenAI for its AI-powered browsing features.
Microsoft's services, including the Clinical Notes App and Security Copilot, were among the first to adopt the GPT-4 LLM, expanding its features and capabilities with AI.
However, not long after its release, tech executives like Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, and more signed a petition to stop AI developments "more powerful" than GPT-4.
OpenAI then slowed its role in further developing its large language models. Despite the many leaks, the public would still not see the next generation of GPT anytime soon.
That being said, the previously-limited API access to GPT-4 is now seeing wider accessibility to its API, available for all developers to use the LLM for their needs. OpenAI said it would allow developers to fine-tune GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo with their own data in the future.
"We are working on safely enabling fine-tuning for GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo and expect this feature to be available later this year," the company noted.
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