OpenAI launches the GPT-3 API in private beta
In one sentence Two weeks after the paper, OpenAI opens its first API in private beta, a general "text in, text out" interface on top of GPT-3 models, free for the first two months and with waitlist access.
With GPT-2, OpenAI had released the weights to download and run yourself. With GPT-3 it changes approach: the weights stay closed and the model is used through an API.
You send text to an endpoint and get back text generated by the model. Nothing to install, no GPU to manage. Access is via a waitlist and the beta is free for the first two months; early customers mentioned include Reddit, which is evaluating the system for content moderation. Those who get in start posting demos that spread everywhere.
It's the start of the "AI as a service" via API model that becomes the norm in the following years.
Companies
OpenAI
Tools
GPT-3, OpenAI API
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Sources
- https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/
- https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/openai-makes-an-all-purpose-api-for-its-text-based-ai-capabilities/
- https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/06/11/openai-to-sell-its-headline-grabbing-text-generator-as-an-api/
- https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/09/03/openai-reveals-the-pricing-plans-for-its-api-and-it-aint-cheap/