OpenAI Now Lets Anyone Create Custom Versions of ChatGPT

At its first developer conference today, OpenAI, the company developing ChatGPT revealed its plan to turn the chatbot into a platform for developers. Starting this week, everyone will be able to create a custom version of ChatGPT that’s optimized for a specific use case. Later this month, it will also be possible to share these custom “GPTs” on the upcoming GPT Store.

“Anyone can easily build their own GPT—no coding is required,” the company explained. “You can make them for yourself, just for your company’s internal use, or for everyone. Creating one is as easy as starting a conversation, giving it instructions and extra knowledge, and picking what it can do, like searching the web, making images or analyzing data.”

Custom GPTs can use third-party APIs and connect to databases, email inboxes, and other sources of data. OpenAI said that it won’t use conversations made with custom GPTs to improve its models.

This is a pretty big change for OpenAI, which is also releasing example GPTs from Canva and Zapier today for ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscribers. “We believe the most incredible GPTs will come from builders in the community. Whether you’re an educator, coach, or just someone who loves to build helpful tools, you don’t need to know coding to make one and share your expertise,” the company said.

While custom GPTs open up a lot of new possibilities for developers, OpenAI also announced today that ChatGPT has now crossed 100 million users. A more capable GPT-4 Turbo model is also launching in preview today for developers. This new model can see more information in a single prompt, and it’s also trained with data on world events up to April 2023.

Last but not least, OpenAI also announced today the Copyright Shied. Similar to what Google and Microsoft previously announced, the company is now committed to offering legal support to its customers accused of copyright infringement.