OpenAI is considering the possibility of an AI app store, which would offer professionals access to a range of artificial intelligence apps. The apps would be developed by external companies and built on top of OpenAI’s technology. The store would enable companies to purchase tailored chatbots that cater to specific industry needs, and would be offered alongside the plug-ins that OpenAI already provides to enterprise users. OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, revealed his potential plans for the marketplace during a private developer meeting in London in May. The potential marketplace is expected to be a significant competitor for existing marketplaces, such as Salesforce, HubSpot and Microsoft.
According to insiders, two of OpenAI’s customers, Aquant and Khan Academy, have expressed an Interest in making their ChatGPT-powered AI models available on OpenAI’s marketplace. Despite being approached for comment by CMSWire, OpenAI has not released a statement.
Due to the shortage of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), OpenAI’s short-term plans are being hampered by the unreliable and slow performance of its API. This issue is also affecting the rollout of a longer 32K context to more people and the performance of the fine-tuning API, both of which require substantial computational resources. For developers who want a private copy of the model with a dedicated capacity, the price is $100,000.
Despite these challenges, Altman has disclosed several developments on the company’s near-term roadmap. For 2023, the priority is to make GPT-4 cheaper and faster, with plans to reduce the cost of intelligence. OpenAI is also aiming to enable longer context windows, possibly up to 1 million tokens and to expand the fine-tuning API. The company plans to introduce a stateful API, which remembers conversation history, in order to eliminate the need to repeatedly pass through and pay for the same information. In 2024, the company aims to introduce multimodality, an enhancement that has been demoed but can’t be fully implemented until more GPUs are available.
There are currently no plans to release plugins for ChatGPT via the API, as they currently lack a clear Product-Market Fit (PMF) outside of the browsing plugin. However, Altman has suggested that a lot of people thought they wanted their apps to be inside ChatGPT but what they really wanted was ChatGPT in their apps.
