OpenAI Makes GPT-4 Generally Available (techcrunch.com) 7
OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its paid API. From a report: Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers "with a history of successful payments" can access GPT-4. The company plans to open up access to new developers by the end of this month, and then start raising availability limits after that "depending on compute availability."
"Millions of developers have requested access to the GPT-4 API since March, and the range of innovative products leveraging GPT-4 is growing every day," OpenAI wrote in a blog post. "We envision a future where chat-based models can support any use case." GPT-4 can generate text (including code) and accept image and text inputs -- an improvement over GPT-3.5, its predecessor, which only accepted text -- and performs at "human level" on various professional and academic benchmarks. Like previous GPT models from OpenAI, GPT-4 was trained using publicly available data, including from public webpages, as well as data that OpenAI licensed. The image understanding capability isn't available to all OpenAI customers just yet. OpenAI's testing it with a single partner, Be My Eyes, to start with. But it hasn't indicated when it'll open it up to the wider customer base.
"Millions of developers have requested access to the GPT-4 API since March, and the range of innovative products leveraging GPT-4 is growing every day," OpenAI wrote in a blog post. "We envision a future where chat-based models can support any use case." GPT-4 can generate text (including code) and accept image and text inputs -- an improvement over GPT-3.5, its predecessor, which only accepted text -- and performs at "human level" on various professional and academic benchmarks. Like previous GPT models from OpenAI, GPT-4 was trained using publicly available data, including from public webpages, as well as data that OpenAI licensed. The image understanding capability isn't available to all OpenAI customers just yet. OpenAI's testing it with a single partner, Be My Eyes, to start with. But it hasn't indicated when it'll open it up to the wider customer base.
Successful Payments (Score:5, Insightful)
> all existing OpenAI API developers "with a history of successful payments"
Is it just me or is that an oddly specific thing to point out? I'm sure OpenAI, like any other company, has had to deal with some amount of fraud, but I've never seen a company say this specifically when announcing a service.
Re: (Score:2)
New users get some free credits, so it's possible to play with it for a while without making any payments.
Re: Successful Payments (Score:2)
Whether you're Elon Musk or someone else, the new thing is not to pay your cloud bills.
So why pay now? (Score:2)
Ok, as paying open-AI user, to reap the benefits of GPT-4, first question that comes to mind is, why would i pay?
Re: (Score:2)
ask gpt4?
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This is for API access, not their chat frontend. The API is paid by token and model usage, whereas the chat is a flat fee. You also can't share your chat login, whereas you can design products on top of the API.
You can actually use things like GPT4All to get a similar looking frontend that just uses the API. Not sure if cheaper.
Oh Yay. (Score:1)