ChatGPT Gets a Store: OpenAI Unveils Platform for Custom Chatbots

11 Jan 2024 , 12:02 PM

On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its GPT Store, an online store where subscribers to ChatGPT may purchase and sell customized chatbot agents built using the business’s language models.

Through its premium ChatGPT Plus service, the company, whose immensely successful product ChatGPT assisted in igniting the AI boom, already provides customized bots. Users will be able to offer and profit from a wider variety of tools with the new store.

The new models, which include ones for designing lesson plans, negotiating salaries, and inventing recipes, could be used to create chatbot agents with unique personalities or themes. OpenAI stated in a blog post announcing the introduction that more than 3 million unique ChatGPT variants have already been made. Additionally, it stated that it intends to showcase helpful GPT tools each week inside the store.

Similar to Apple’s App shop, the shop encourages fresh innovation in the field of artificial intelligence from a larger user base. In a similar vein, Meta provides chatbots with varying personalities.

Prior to internal turmoil at the business late last year, when OpenAI’s board ousted Sam Altman as CEO, the GPT shop was scheduled to open in November. After almost everyone left the company, he came back a week later.

In a blog post, the firm said that it will introduce a revenue-sharing program in the first quarter of this year, whereby builders will get payment contingent on the level of user interaction with their GPTs. That information has not yet been made public.

OpenAI advised users to make sure their chatbots adhere to GPT brand rules and usage policies in an email sent last week to the platform’s developers. In a news release that accompanied the debut, the business highlighted a number of items that were already available, such as those from the hiking app AllTrails and the creative tool Canva.

Customers of ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise, two of its premium services, may access the new store as well as a new membership tier called Team, which costs $25 per month for each user. For team requirements, team subscribers can also design unique GPTs.

Altman promised to pay for the legal fees of developers who might violate copyright laws when building products using ChatGPT and OpenAI’s technologies during the company’s first developer demo day. Due to allegations of copyright infringement, OpenAI has been sued several times for training its extensive language models on copyrighted material. Early in January, Altman declared that developing ChatGPT would be ‘impossible’ if copyrighted content was not incorporated into the artificial intelligence’s training corpus.

The company’s major product, ChatGPT, was introduced in November 2022 with little fanfare but swiftly gained popularity, amassing 100 million members in a short period of time. The Dall-E image generating software is also produced by OpenAI, however it is currently unclear if the store will accept custom image bots in addition to custom chatbots.

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