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OpenAI DevDay: Everything You Need To Know
Plus Elon announces Grok!
Nathaniel Whittemore
November 07, 2023
The AI Breakdown First Five - Tuesday November 7, 2023
The AI Breakdown is back from traveling and excited to dig into some absolutely game-changing updates from Elon, Altman and more.
Today on the First Five:
5. Grok!
4. Whisper 3 and TTS
3. GPT-4 Turbo 128k Context Window
2. Assistant API
1. Custom GPT Store
5. Grok!
As you can probably tell, the vast majority of this episode is dedicated to announcements from OpenAI’s DevDay, but since we’ve been traveling, we would be remiss to not mention Elon Musk’s weekend announcement of the saucy, “based” Grok chatbot from xAI.
4. Whisper 3 and TTS
DevDay was a classic example of so many things being announced, even the small stuff was big when you look at it in the abstract. Whisper, OpenAI’s speech-to-text model, got an update and another open source release. The company also debuted a new text-to-speech model, a key step towards true multimodality.
OpenAI TTS looks to be ~10-20x cheaper than ElevenLabs
— Nate Chan (@nathanwchan)
7:43 PM • Nov 6, 2023
3. GPT-4 Turbo 128k Context Window
Move over Anthropic Claude and your puny little 100k context window! GPT-4 Turbo now has a 128k context window. It also has an April 2023 knowledge cutoff and is more than 50% cheaper than GPT-4 was previously via API. People are already exploring the expanded capacity.
Time to go implement some papers with gpt-4-turbo's 128k context length and ChatGPT's built-in code interpreter!
— Aman (@_amankishore)
9:55 PM • Nov 6, 2023
2. Assistants API
Leading into the event there were whispers that a key announcement would be tools for building AI agents. Sure enough, we got an Assistants API which allows developers to build agents that have access to Code Interpreter, Retrieval, and Function Calling.
Openai literally flipped the entire ai landscape on its head
most ai code is likely tech debt
companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars building their own "assistants api"
And now its available to everyone
This is huge for the little guys, brutal for the big guys
— Sully (@SullyOmarr)
7:22 PM • Nov 6, 2023
1. Custom GPT Store
Steve Jobs was famous for his “one more thing” moments where he shared some groundbreaking new product at the very end of a presentation. OpenAI’s version of that was what they’re calling Custom GPTs - a way for people to create specific purpose versions of ChatGPT with natural language. There will also be a GPT Store (think App Store) with a rev share for creators.
Madness, @sama builds a custom GPT using private knowledge in just under 4 minutes.
Then he goes on to share it.
There will be millions of GPTs.
— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam)
8:49 PM • Nov 6, 2023
BONUS: Just about the only contrarian take we’ve seen
OpenAI Developer Day Announcement and Implications for Open-Source AI development
OpenAI's developer day was filled with a bunch of annoncements. Most notable amongst them was a 3x price cut on GPT-4-turbo, Custom GPTs and Assistants APIs
Sadly and predictably, there was no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy)
12:28 AM • Nov 7, 2023
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