06 November 2023
OpenAI announced several new products and updates to ChatGPT at Dev Day in San Francisco yesterday, continuing to shape the future of AI.
CEO Sam Altman told the conference that ChatGPT currently has over 100 million weekly active users and over 2 million developers building on its API, including for 92% of Fortune 500 companies. So the changes are likely to have an immediate impact.
Products and updates announced included:
GPT-4 Turbo
▪ Source data updated to April 2023
▪ Context window (the ‘prompt’ or input box) expanded to 128k (equivalent to 300 pages of text), from 8k and 32k in previous GPT versions
▪ Ability to search PDFs and other input documents
▪ Ability to accept images in the prompt (input box) and more natural-sounding speech for output (text-to-speech)
▪ Plans to integrate GPT-4 Turbo with DALL-E 3 (OpenAI’s text-to-image model)
▪ Ability to produce outputs in the coding language of a user’s choice (such as XML or JSON)
▪ Cheaper pricing for GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo (based on price per input and output tokens, the unit of text or code a GPT reads)
GPTs
▪ Custom versions of ChatGPT that enterprise users can build for specific tasks (initially only for design app Canva and workflow software Zapier AI, but more versions will be released)
GPT Store
▪ A store to obtain GPTs built by other developers, who will be able to earn money for the GPTs they build (releasing later this month)
Custom Models for enterprise users
▪ A team of OpenAI researchers who will work with organisations to train a custom version of GPT-4 for their business needs (currently limited to selected companies and “not cheap”)
Assistant API
▪ A function-calling mechanism to make it easier for developers to plug features into their apps, such as a coding assistant or natural language-based data analysis
Copyright Shield
▪ Indemnity against copyright infringement claims for business users of Chat-GPT Enterprise and the OpenAI developer platform (following similar moves by Microsoft and Google)
This may sound like techspeak, but ChatGPT's features will continue to have a huge influence on the development and regulation of AI.
Anyone with an interest in AI (and that must be everyone by now) should watch the impact of these developments closely.