OpenAI Launches Marketplace for AI Software
According to sources familiar with the matter, OpenAI intends to introduce a platform where developers can market their AI models developed using its AI technology. The company is renowned for creating the widely used chatbot ChatGPT. The Information reported this development on Tuesday.
Enterprise customers using ChatGPT often customize the technology for their own uses, which range from identifying financial fraud from online transaction data to answering questions about specific markets based on internal documents. According to the news report, makers of such models could offer them to other companies through OpenAI’s proposed marketplace.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the potential plans at a meeting with developers last month in London, according to the report.
Such a marketplace could compete with the app stores of some of the company’s customers and technology partners — including Salesforce and Microsoft — and help OpenAI’s technology reach a wider customer base.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
The Information also reported that two of the company’s clients, Aquant, which makes software that manufacturers use to guide customers through device maintenance and repair, and educational app maker Khan Academy, may be interested in offering their ChatGPT-based AI models on the OpenAI marketplace.
Since its release late last year, hundreds of companies have adopted ChatGPT to automate tasks and increase efficiency. Companies are also competing to offer their customers new tools and features based on advanced large language models (LLM) in AI software.
