GPT-4 Goes Public: OpenAI Announces General Availability of Latest ChatGPT Model
OpenAI, the Microsoft-owned company, has made a significant announcement regarding the availability of its latest text-generating model, GPT-4. Through its API (Application Programming Interface), OpenAI has now made GPT-4 accessible to all paying API customers. This development comes after the introduction of the ChatGPT API in March and subsequent updates to the chat-based models earlier this month.
OpenAI envisions a future where chat-based models can cater to a variety of use cases. With this latest release, all existing API developers who have a history of successful payments can now access the GPT-4 API, providing them with up to 8,000 contexts. By the end of this month, the company also plans to open up access to new developers, followed by an increase in rate limits based on compute availability.
The demand for the GPT-4 API has been tremendous, with millions of developers expressing their interest since March. OpenAI highlights the growing range of innovative products that leverage GPT-4’s capabilities.
Additionally, OpenAI has outlined a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, recommending users to adopt the Chat Completions API instead. The Chat Completions API offers a structured interface, system messages, and function calling, enabling developers to create conversational experiences and a wide range of completion tasks. This approach also helps mitigate the risk of prompt injection attacks as user-provided content can be easily separated from instructions.
OpenAI is going one step further by making other APIs, including GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E, and Whisper, generally available. The company is actively working on safely enabling fine-tuning for GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo, with expectations of this feature being available later this year.
These announcements from OpenAI demonstrate their commitment to advancing the capabilities of AI-powered conversational models, providing developers with more tools and options to innovate and create valuable products. With GPT-4 now accessible to a broader audience, the potential for new and exciting applications of this text-generating model continues to grow.
