Here comes ChatGPT API for businesses – AI

The chatbot’s creator, OpenAI, has released a new API that gives developers access to ChatGPT’s features.

Whisper API was also made available by OpenAI on Wednesday. Whisper is a speech-to-text model that the AI research firm open-sourced in September 2022.

According to OpenAI, a number of significant businesses, including Snapchat, Instacart, & Shopify, are already utilizing the ChatGPT API.

Instacart will use the conversational AI technology to help customers build shopping lists from their open-ended questions, such as, “What’s a healthy lunch for my kids?” Shopify, meanwhile, will integrate ChatGPT technology into Shop, the consumer app that shoppers use to find different products & brands. The learning platform Quizlet is also using the ChatGPT API to power an AI tutor.

The ChatGPT API delivers access to GPT 3.5 Turbo, the same model used in the ChatGPT product.

OpenAI said in its blog post:

The ChatGPT model family we are releasing today, gpt-3.5-turbo, is the same model used in the ChatGPT product. It is priced at $0.002 per 1k tokens, which is 10x cheaper than our existing GPT-3.5 models. It’s also our best model for many non-chat use cases—we’ve seen early testers migrate from text-davinci-003 to gpt-3.5-turbo with only a small amount of adjustment needed to their prompts.

API: Traditionally, GPT models consume unstructured text, which is represented to the model as a sequence of “tokens.” ChatGPT models instead consume a sequence of messages together with metadata. (For the curious: under the hood, the input is still rendered to the model as a sequence of “tokens” for the model to consume; the raw format used by the model is a new format called Chat Markup Language (“ChatML”).)