OpenAI drops the waitlist: GPT-3 API available to all
In one sentence Eighteen months after the GPT-3 paper, OpenAI removes the API access waitlist and lets any developer sign up, accelerating mainstream adoption of foundation models.
For 18 months, since GPT-3 was announced in May 2020, the only way to try it was to request access and wait. The waitlist was long, approval discretionary.
OpenAI announces the waitlist is gone: anyone can sign up and start calling the API. Safety rules remain (the company can block accounts that violate policy), but the main access barrier falls.
It's a commercial turning point. After this announcement, the number of apps integrating GPT-3 explodes. The first wave of "AI wrapper" startups is born here — copywriting, translation, customer support, summarization. The commercial prelude to ChatGPT.
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