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The GPT store that turns ordinary people over is finally here.
OpenAI's revolutionary masterpiece, the GPT store went live this week
Following the end of Ultraman's annual palace fight, OpenAI finally put the long-postponed GPT store on the agenda.
Just recently, OpenAI suddenly released an email to all GPT developers, making it clear that a custom "GPT Store" store will be launched this week. This can be said to be the first blockbuster news in the field of AI since the beginning of 2024, indicating that artificial intelligence applications are about to enter the era of explosion.
As a revolutionary work of the AI ecosystem carefully created by OpenAI, unlike traditional applications, the GPT store does not require users to have any programming experience, as long as they use simple natural language to input the functions they want GPT to achieve, OpenAI's GPT construction tool GPT Builder will make an exclusive customized AI chatbot. Users can also easily customize the attributes and style of the AI robot through multiple rounds of fine-tuning, and share them with others.
According to Ultraman's introduction, in the GPT store, GPTs have different categories and rankings, which will list the GPTs with the highest installs and the highest ratings, which is equivalent to an App Store in the artificial intelligence industry. The most important thing is that creators don't need any threshold and experience.
In addition to this, OpenAI also plans to launch GPT-5 in 2024. GPT-5 will have more powerful voice, video, and inference capabilities than GPT-4, and the rate limit will also increase. At the same time, OpenAI will also develop a better GPT model, further control its arousal/behavior degree to provide personalized services, optimize browsing functions and open source related technologies.
The data shows that OpenAI has achieved great success with the ChatGPT chatbot platform in less than 9 years. In 2023, ARR's annual revenue will reach $1.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 56 times, and the company's valuation will be as high as $100 billion. Therefore, with the launch of the GPT Store and GPT-5 this year, OpenAI is likely to become the most powerful "dark horse" in the tech industry.
The "App Store moment" for big models is coming
However, it is not easy to get the GPT store to land smoothly. There's an even bigger obstacle ahead of OpenAI, the New York Times.
Some time ago, the New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI in the Southern District Court of New York, accusing them of using a large number of copyrighted articles to train artificial intelligence models without permission, develop products that compete with the New York Times, and make huge profits. The New York Times' demands are to cease the infringements, restore the status quo ante, and compensate for the damages.
In other words, if OpenAI does not reach a partnership agreement with The New York Times and more news content publishers, it will not only face huge compensation, but also face a significant loss of content due to data training, which will cause significant obstacles to several businesses, including the upcoming "GPT Store". After all, OpenAI wants to do its best to meet this "App Store moment", and it needs to find more content to train AI models.
According to the GPTs Hunter website, 91,100 GPTs have emerged on the public network, covering a wide range of fields, including development tools, productivity, graphics, language Xi, and even finance, customer support, market analysis, and healthcare. The rankings of these GPTs are mainly based on the scraped traffic data, which gives a glimpse of how popular users are about various applications.
Taking GPTs Hunter as an example, OpenAI's official text generator DALL.E is still one of the most popular choices. Other popular GPTs include PDF file analysis assistants, video creation tools, and startup question answering systems, as well as online design platform Canva and essay writing aids. It's clear that the top GPTs are primarily focused on utility tools, focusing on solving problems in a specific area or improving the user's skill level in a certain area.
It is worth mentioning that OpenAI clearly states that developers who build GPT applications must carefully review the company's usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure that their GPT meets the relevant requirements before promoting it publicly. In addition, they are required to verify user profiles and ensure that their GPT is published as "public", a regulation designed to safeguard the quality and compliance of GPT applications.
You must know that before this, users could only do GPT non-governmental communication and sharing, impacting various wild rankings. And now you can finally go to the official market to compete, and there is even a chance to make money.
GPT Store: The first pot of gold for ordinary people's AI
According to Altman, once in the store, the GPT created by the user can be searched and possibly on the leaderboard. In the coming months, it will be possible to make money based on how many people are using GPT. In other words, the GPT store brings ordinary people closer to earning their first pot of gold in generative AI.
On January 3, DingTalk and IDC, an internationally renowned consulting organization, released the first "2024 AIGC Application Layer Top Ten Trends White Paper" (hereinafter referred to as the "White Paper"). IDC predicts that by 2024, more than 500 million new applications will emerge worldwide, which is equivalent to the number of applications that have appeared in the past 40 years combined.
According to the White Paper, the top 10 trending keywords for AIGC applications in 2024 cover application-layer innovation, AI agent, proprietary model, super entrance, multimodality, AI native application, AI tooling, and AI inclusiveness.
Fu Sheng, chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and founder of Orion Star, also recently said that 2024 will be the year of a wave of AI large model applications. It can be seen that the industry generally believes that 2024 will witness significant development in the productization, industrialization and commercialization of AI technology.
OpenAI's choice to launch the GPT store at this moment is undoubtedly a game-changing move for AI creators, offering unlimited revenue potential. Also using this model to make money is the Apple Store, and it has already generated huge revenues for the company. According to Altman, OpenAI will also take a portion of its own revenue to pay for the most commonly used and useful GPT developers.
It's unclear whether OpenAI will implement a revenue share policy similar to Apple's or Google's, but Altman has said in an interview that he expects significant developments in this strategy, starting with direct revenue sharing and then possibly considering a service that subscribes to personal GPT.
In addition, the identity of a "certified developer" has not been clearly stated. Presumably, this was only set up to prevent low-quality and copycat GPTs from making their way into the app store. At the previous developer conference, OpenAI had already showcased GPT developed by Code.org, TripAdvisor, and Canva, indicating that the first batch of GPT stores should be official apps.
However, OpenAI's decision to establish itself as independent of existing app stores and publishing platforms could lead to a direct conflict with industry giants such as Apple, or even major shareholder Microsoft, resulting in the lack of revenue sharing for all parties. OpenAI may have to tread carefully in this regard.
Will you be the first to get on board in the face of the upcoming GPT store?