How are companies releasing GPT-4 powered products so fast?
I am aware of the OpenAI GPT-4 beta testing program so many companies must be using the beta APIs. I still don't understand how so many companies have announced + launched full fledged production features powered by GPT-4. Are most of these just half baked features or is everyone banking on the OpenAI hype?
[1] - https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1635689751943712768
[2] - https://twitter.com/BeMyEyes/status/1635690254689599488
[3] - https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-max/
They had access to gpt4 for a while. Its not suddenly.
All of them have a partnership with OpenAI, from which they might have gotten access earlier to test & explore use-cases
The changes required to use the ChatGPT API that was released recently were very minimal.
And to use the new models is just a single line change.
So it’s very easy to switch over - if you have access.
Good example code here: https://github.com/atomic14/command_line_chatgpt
It’s been a few months now that ChatGPT was released. So I think it’s reasonable to assume in that time any small team could have developed features with the assumption those APIs would become available at a later date.
We are also getting fascinated by this process. Maybe just a gimmick?