Can you think of an application you could create that would add value to ChatGPT? API access to GPT (the underlying technology) is available now. One way to think about it is how YouTube created a $1.65 billion company (what Google paid for it in 2006) by building a user-friendly front end (application) over a B2B-oriented, hard to use (for normal people) Adobe Flash server. The “real” money will be made at the application layer, where experts create highly specialized training sets that add value to the basic services by offering focused super-productive tools. (Apologies to non-Douglas Adams fans.)īack in our universe… what would you pay for professional access to ChatGPT? Sans collusion or some other anti-competitive practice between owners of large language models, no matter the initial asking price, the price of the basic service will ultimately devolve into a commoditized race to the bottom (think cloud pricing). More importantly, I have been wondering if ChatGPT is, in fact, a pseudonym for Deep Thought. In the book, the answer to the “Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything” is 42, which makes me wonder if the final pricing will be announced on May 25. Fans of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” know this number well. We know that OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) is working on a pricing plan, and some users are reporting that they’ve been granted access to a pro tier that costs $42 a month.
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