OpenAI, an artificial intelligence technology company, is making its presence felt in the startup industry. It has its tentacles in hundreds of Silicon Valley companies and is making them more productive. With the company’s large language models, every app can now be overlaid with an invisible layer of AI power. Developers and companies confidently link with OpenAI so their apps have access to this powerful technology.
An example of OpenAI’s technology being utilized is the email app, Superhuman, which has a cult following. This app offers a writing assistant built on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is useful in drafting emails, cleaning up spelling and grammar, and re-writing the messages in the sender’s own “voice” based on past emails. Superhuman began their private testing last week and are now available to a select group of testers.
CEO of Superhuman, Rahul Vohra, expressed his enthusiasm for this transformation, likening it to the shift of the internet and smartphone. OpenAI’s large language models are now being used to fuel and power several apps, including Duolingo, Perplexity, Jasper, and more. These are all powered by OpenAI and other vendors, and provide benefits like conversational AI, answer research in plain language, and marketing copy brainstorming.
OpenAI offers the first commercial offering, a tool that allows developers to bake these large language models into their products. Its CEO, Sam Altman, is an active investor, with a portfolio that holds hundreds of startups.
Since its foundations in the startup sector, OpenAI has proven to be a valuable tool for developers. It accelerates the development process, taking a great load off of the engineering team, significantly reducing computing costs, and providing a great service that can help build and launch high-quality apps.
