OpenAI unveils new API for ChatGPT and Whisper speech-to-text technology

OpenAI has announced that developers can now integrate ChatGPT into their apps and services via an API, and it will be significantly cheaper than using their existing language models.

ChatGPT can be used for more than just creating AI-powered chat interfaces, and OpenAI is making a new model family called gpt-3.5-turbo available for many non-chat use cases.

The company is offering 1,000 tokens for $0.002, which is 10x cheaper than their existing GPT-3.5 models, thanks to a series of system-wide optimizations.

The tokens are blocks of text that the system breaks sentences and words into to predict what text it should output next. OpenAI provides a tool for checking how many tokens it'll take to interpret a string of text.

OpenAI is also announcing another new API for Whisper, its speech-to-text model, which can be used to transcribe or translate audio at a cost of $0.006 per minute.

OpenAI has made policy changes based on developer feedback, including not using data submitted through the API to train its models unless customers explicitly okay that usage.

OpenAI's engineering team's top priority is now the stability of production use cases.

The introduction of an official ChatGPT API feels like it could be the moment the floodgates open for developers to use OpenAI's tech.