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OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPT, a custom app based on text generation AI models, within the next week.
In an email seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI said that developers building GPT must review the company’s latest Usage Policy and GPT Brand Guidelines before being eligible to be listed on the GPT Store, and that GPT is compliant. He said it is necessary to make sure that You should also verify the profiled builder and ensure that GPT is exposed as “public”.
The GPT store was announced last year during DevDay, OpenAI’s first annual developer conference, but was postponed to December. This is almost certainly due to the management shake-up that took place in November, shortly after his initial announcement.
GPT requires no coding experience and can be as simple or complex as the developer desires. For example, you can train GPT on a cookbook collection to answer questions about ingredients in a particular recipe. Alternatively, GPT can incorporate a company’s own codebase, allowing developers to check their own style and generate code that aligns with their best practices.
Starting immediately after DevDay, developers could create and share GPTs directly with other users, but they could not publicly list them.
It is still unclear whether the GPT store will launch with a revenue sharing scheme. As of November, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CTO Mira Murati told colleague Devin Caldwee that there were no firm plans, and emails about future store launches indicated that developers would not be able to make payment arrangements. He said there was no mention of what to expect.
An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch that more details will be available next week.
As I wrote a while back in TechCrunch’s semi-regular AI newsletter, OpenAI’s transition from AI model provider to platform was certainly interesting, but not entirely unexpected. The startup signaled its ambitions in March by releasing a plug-in for his ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that brings third parties into OpenAI’s ecosystem for the first time. did.
GPT effectively democratizes the creation of generative AI apps, at least for apps that use OpenAI’s family of models. In fact, GPT could essentially crush consultancies whose business model is to build what is essentially GPT for their customers.
Is that a good thing? Not necessarily, I would argue. But we’ll have to wait to see how it plays out.