OpenAI has finally launched its much-anticipated GPT store, which allows users to buy and sell different GPTs based on OpenAI’s broad language models.
The store acts as a marketplace for personalized AI applications and allows users to access a variety of AI applications. Some examples of customized apps shared by OpenAI include Khan Academy’s Code Tutor for learning coding skills and Canva for designing presentations or social posts.
“The store features a wide variety of GPTs developed by our partners and the community,” OpenAI said in the press release. The company claims that users have created more than 3 million GPT versions in the last two months. This number is likely to increase significantly as GPT becomes available to be developed and published online. The GPT Store is initially available to paid ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users.
OpenAI plans to launch its GPT creator revenue program in the ongoing quarter. The blog post announcing the GPT Store states that US developers will be paid based on user interaction.
The GPT Store model is similar to Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store; It allows users to easily access various services online while allowing developers to monetize their skills. Like those app stores, OpenAI’s GPT Store will allow users to “browse popular and trending GPTs on the community leaderboard with categories like DALL.E, writing, research, programming, education, and lifestyle.”
The store opening strategy will allow OpenAI to expand its ecosystem and add new revenue streams. GPT Store will soon be available to ChatGPT Enterprises users, providing greater administrative control for use within an organization.
Targeting enterprise users, OpenAI also announced a new ChatGPT Team plan that essentially provides users with a private, collaborative workspace.
“OpenAI’s GPT store will help a large community of users come together and collaborate as they create their own versions of ChatGPT for specific purposes, such as designing, writing, or coding. This store not only allows open sharing but also allows users to earn money from it. “This will help create private versions that will be held publicly or privately as control is completed by the user or group of users,” said IDC vice president Deepika Giri.
“We believe this is consistent with the general trend in the evolution of specialized LLM models with limited capabilities related to a very specific function,” Giri added.
The company had originally planned to launch the GPT Store in November last year, but this was delayed due to disruption caused by the dismissal and reinstatement of OpenAI’s high-profile CEO Sam Altman.
The launch of ChatGPT last year was a disruptive moment in the evolution of the AI ecosystem, and now the company has come back with an offering that promises to make AI extremely accessible and will lead to the emergence of new AI use cases.