All that was announced at the first OpenAI developer event

OpenAI held its first developer event on Monday, and it was a busy one. The company unveiled improved models and new APIs. Here's a recap of all the announcements in case you missed the event.

One year after its launch, ChatGPT is very popular. According to OpenAI, more than 100 million people use the tool on a weekly basis. ChatGPT has become one of the fastest consumer products to reach the 100 million monthly users mark just a few months after launch.

The company also noted that more than 2 million developers are creating solutions using its API.

GPT-4 Turbo

At a developer event, the company unveiled GPT-4 Turbo, an improved version of the popular GPT-4 model. Open AI said that the new Turbo model comes in two versions: one for text analysis only and the other for text and image understanding. The text-only analysis model is priced at $0.01/1000 input tokens and $0.03/1000 output tokens. Processing a 1080×1080 pixel image will cost GPT-4 Turbo $0.00765.

GPT-4 Turbo's context window is 128,000 tokens or approximately 100,000 words, four times larger than GPT-4's context window. The new model cuts off knowledge in April 2023, while GPT-4 has a cutoff in September 2021.

OpenAI has announced that it will allow users to create their own versions of GPT for fun or productive use. Users will be able to create such bots simply by using hints, without the need for coding knowledge. The company will also allow enterprise customers to create GPTs for internal use only, based on the company's knowledge base.

According to the company, developers can connect GPT to databases or knowledge bases, such as e-mail, to import external information.

OpenAI said it plans to let users publish these GPTs to a store coming later this month. Initially, it will feature creations from "trusted builders." The company's CEO Sam Altman also talked about paying people for popular GPTs.

Notably, Quora's Poe platform, which also allows users to create bots using hints, opened a payment program for creators last week.

GPT examples will be available to ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise customers starting today.

At its first Developer Day event, OpenAI unveiled a new Assistants API that allows developers to create their own "agents." Developers can create agents that receive knowledge from outside or call programming functions to perform a specific action. Use cases range from a coding assistant to an AI-powered vacation planner.

DALL-E 3 API

OpenAI's DALL-E 3 text-to-image model from DALL-E 3 is now available through an API with built-in moderation tools. Output parameters range from 1024×1024 to 1792×1024 in a variety of formats. Open AI has priced the model at $0.04 per generated image.

New APIs for text-to-speech

The company has launched a new text-to-speech API called Audio API with six preset voices: Alloy, Echo, Fable, Onyx, Nova and Shimer. The API provides access to two generative artificial intelligence models and costs $0.015 per 1,000 characters input.

OpenAI announced a new program called Copyright Shield at its developer conference, promising to protect enterprises using the company's AI products from copyright lawsuits. The company said it will pay legal fees if customers using OpenAI's "publicly available" developer platform and ChatGPT Enterprise face intellectual property lawsuits for content created with OpenAI tools.

Recently, companies such as Mircosoft, Google-backed Cohere, Amazon and IBM have announced that they will defend customers against intellectual property infringement lawsuits.