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Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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Re: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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> It is priced at $0.002 per 1k tokens, which is 10x cheaper than our existing GPT-3.5 models.

This is a massive, massive deal. For context, the reason GPT-3 apps took off over the past few months before ChatGPT went viral is because a) text-davinci-003 was released and was a significant performance increase and b) the cost was cut from $0.06/1k tokens to $0.02/1k tokens, which made consumer applications feasible without a large upfront cost.

A much better model and a 1/10th cost warps the economics completely to the point that it may be better than in-house finetuned LLMs.

I have no idea how OpenAI can make money on this. This has to be a loss-leader to lock out competitors before they even get off the ground.

Re: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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> It is priced at $0.002 per 1k tokens, which is 10x cheaper than our existing GPT-3.5 models. This is a massive, massive deal. For context, the reason GPT-3 apps took off over the past few months before ChatGPT went viral is because a) text-davinci-003 was released and was a significant performance increase and b) the cost was cut from $0.06/1k tokens to $0.02/1k tokens, which made consumer applications feasible wit…

> I have no idea how OpenAI can make money on this. This has to be a loss-leader to lock out competitors before they even get off the ground.

The worst thing that can happen to OpenAI+ChatGPT right now is what happened to DallE 2, a competitor comes up with an alternative (even worse if it's free/open like Stable Diffusion) and completely undercuts them. Especially with Meta's new Llama models outperforming GPT-3, it's only a matter of time someone else gathers enough human feedback to tune another language model to make an alternate ChatGPT.

Re: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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I am happy that we designed our UI for Fibery AI Assistant ready for chat, less re-work!

Looks like a super decent release and price cut makes it sane to use. Token limit is is same, and this is not great for many use cases...

Re: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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> It is priced at $0.002 per 1k tokens, which is 10x cheaper than our existing GPT-3.5 models. This is a massive, massive deal. For context, the reason GPT-3 apps took off over the past few months before ChatGPT went viral is because a) text-davinci-003 was released and was a significant performance increase and b) the cost was cut from $0.06/1k tokens to $0.02/1k tokens, which made consumer applications feasible wit…

It also seems to jeopardize their own ChatGPT Pro offering. It's a matter of time before someone makes a 1:1 clone for either half the money or a usage-based pricing model.

Re: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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This is incredibly cheap, it makes you wonder how in the world they managed to make it 10x cheaper than davinci-003 and still a better model? The world of robo-consulting is about to go insane.

Re: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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>Through a series of system-wide optimizations, we’ve achieved 90% cost reduction for ChatGPT since December

This is seriously impressive. A MILLION tokens for 2 dollars is absolutely fucking insane.

I hope that the gains reached here can also be found by open source and non-controlled AI projects. If so, that could be huge for the advancement of AI.

Re: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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this is so much cheaper than fine-tuned model; it would make sense to try and use the multi-shot prompt in the 3.5turbo model. plus, there's the hundreds/thousands of training items that you wouldn't need to create....fml

The ChatGPT API is cheaper than a fine-tuned babbage model.
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