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AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)
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SF folks: join us at the AI Engineer Foundation’s Emergency Hackathon tomorrow and consider the Newton if you’d like to cowork in the heart of the Cerebral Arena.
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~800,000 developers watched OpenAI Dev Day, ~8,000 of whom listened along live on our ThursdAI x Latent Space, and ~800 of whom got tickets to attend in person:
OpenAI’s first developer conference easily surpassed most people’s lowballed expectations - they simply did everything short of announcing GPT-5, including:
* ChatGPT (the consumer facing product)
* GPT4 Turbo already in ChatGPT (running faster, with an April 2023 cutoff), all noticed by users weeks before the conference
* Model picker eliminated, God Model chooses for you
* GPTs - “tailored version of ChatGPT for a specific purpose” - stopping short of “Agents”. With custom instructions, expanded knowledge, and actions, and an intuitive no-code GPT Builder UI (we tried all these on our livestream yesterday and found some issues, but also were able to ship interesting GPTs very quickly) and a GPT store with revenue sharing (an important criticism we focused on in our episode on ChatGPT Plugins)
* API (the developer facing product)
* APIs for Dall-E 3, GPT4 Vision, Code Interpreter (RIP Advanced Data Analysis), GPT4 Finetuning and (surprise!) Text to Speech
* many thought each of these would take much longer to arrive
* usable in curl and in playground
* BYO Interpreter + Async Agents?
* Assistant API: stateful API backing “GPTs” like apps, with support for calling multiple tools in parallel, persistent Threads (storing message history, unlimited context window with some asterisks), and uploading/accessing Files (with a possibly-too-simple RAG algorithm, and expensive pricing)
* Whisper 3 announced and open sourced (HuggingFace recap)
* Price drops for a bunch of things!
* Misc: Custom Models for big spending ($2-3m) customers, Copyright Shield, Satya
The progress here feels fast, but it is mostly (incredible) last-mile execution on model ca