OpenAI launches the GPT-3 API in private beta
In one sentence Two weeks after the paper, OpenAI opens a private beta of the first general API for its language models, available to a few hundred developers building applications directly on top of GPT-3.
For outside developers, GPT-2 had been something you'd download and run locally, with limited results. OpenAI changes the approach for GPT-3: instead of releasing the weights, they open a paid API.
You send text to an endpoint and get back text generated by the model. Nothing to install, no GPU to manage. For the first months access is invite-only with a waitlist. A handful of researchers, startups and tinkerers get in first and start posting demos that impress everyone: chatbots, code generators, summarizers, translators.
It's the birth of the "AI as a service" business model that will dominate the next 5 years.
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OpenAI
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GPT-3, OpenAI API
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