one year on
OpenAI launches ChatGPT API with gpt-3.5-turbo, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers.
The API for OpenAI's wildly popular ChatGPT is priced at $0.002 per 1,000 tokens and uses gpt-3.5-turbo, an optimized, more responsive version of GPT-3.5, with early integrations from Snap, Shopify, Instacart and Quizlet.
OpenAI today released a commercial API for ChatGPT, powered by a new model called gpt-3.5-turbo, priced at $0.002 per 1,000 tokens — an optimized, more responsive version of GPT-3.5.
Early adopters include Snap, which uses the API to power its “My AI” chatbot for Snapchat+ subscribers; Shopify, which built a personalized shopping assistant; Instacart, which is developing an “Ask Instacart” feature for food and recipe questions; and Quizlet, which launched a virtual tutor called Q-Chat. OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the API enables non-chat applications as well, describing it as “the same AI model behind OpenAI’s wildly popular ChatGPT” optimized for responsiveness and cost.
The company also introduced dedicated capacity plans for enterprise customers, letting customers pay for an allocation of compute infrastructure, with dedicated-capacity customers able to use gpt-3.5-turbo models with up to a 16k context window. A new structured prompt format called ChatML uses a sequence of messages with metadata and is meant to be more robust against prompt attacks. OpenAI promises automatic model upgrades by default, though developers can pin to older versions.
The record
OpenAI president and chairman said the API was always the plan and that it took time to reach quality level and meet demand at scale.
Instacart chief architect said AI could reduce the mental load of grocery shopping, and they were thrilled to experiment with ChatGPT integration.
One year later — open only if you can handle spoilers
The ChatGPT API launch triggered an explosion of AI-powered features across consumer and enterprise products throughout 2023. Within months, gpt-3.5-turbo became one of the most widely integrated language models in history, as companies raced to add chatbot interfaces to virtually every category of software.