OpenAI Developer Day 2023

Table of Contents

1. OpenAI Developer Day 2023
2. Agenda Overview
3. Key Takeaways
4. Product Announcements
   • GPT-4 Turbo Announcement
   • OpenAI Enterprise
   • Copyright Shield
   • GPTs (Custom AI Assistants)
   • GPT Store
   • Assistants API (AI Agents API)
5. Link to Keynote Presentation

Agenda Overview

OpenAI held its first DevDay conference in San Francisco on November 10, 2023. The event features new product announcements and updates across OpenAI’s developer platform.

Key Takeaways

• The new GPT-4-Turbo model offers improved capabilities at a lower cost
• Announced Copyright Shield - OpenAI will legally defend customers and pay expenses if they face claims of copyright infringement
• Introduced GPTs - customizable mini AI chatbots that can be shared and discovered
• GPT Store - New marketplace for finding and sharing GPT Assistants
• Launched Assistants API - to simplify building AI agents and apps
• Expanded partnership with Microsoft to continue advancing AI infrastructure and capabilities
• ChatGPT continues to be one of the fastest-growing services ever. AI is rapidly evolving, as Sam Altman quoted:  “What we just announced will look quaint next year.”

Product Announcements

GPT-4 Turbo Announcement

• Updated knowledge base to April 2023
• 128k token support, a massive increase from the previous GPT model with 8k token
• JSON Mode outputs valid JSON for easier integration into applications
• Functions allow chaining multiple logins together
• Reproducible outcomes give consistent results for the same prompt input
• New modalities like DALL-E 3, Vision, and Text to Speech with human-like voices
• Fine Tuning will be possible on the 16k version for customization
• Custom models program allows training domain-specific models

OpenAI Enterprise

• Launched in early 2023 to provide enterprise-grade capabilities
• Enables building internal custom models with fine-tuning
• Private endpoints, enhanced security compliance, and policy controls
• Allows internal use case and deployment behind company firewall and onsite premises
• OpenAI will not use data to train their public-facing Large Language Models

Copyright Shield

• OpenAI has a new legal initiative on when protections will be offered to API customers and ChatGPT Enterprise users.
• The goal is to protect customers acting in good faith to build without legal risk, providing peace of mind for customers leveraging the platform.

GPTs (Custom AI Assistants)

• GPTs are customizable mini versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, knowledge, and actions for specific purposes.
• Low/No Code environment, and can be built using natural language mechanism
• Builder allows configuration capabilities like retrieval, choosing models, adding custom actions, etc

GPT Store

• OpenAI announced a marketplace for publishing GPT’s for profit
• Creators of top GPT’s will receive revenue sharing from OpenAI
• OpenAI will vet and approve GPTs listed for policy compliance
• Launch day will be the first week of December

Assistants API (AI Agents API)

• New developer tool for building AI assistants and agent experiences
• Simplifies complex engineering work
• It allows fine-tuning for the 16k version and programming for domain-specific training.
• Key Capabilities:
  • Persistent threads allow long conversation
  • Built-in retrieval for parsing documents and data (RAG)
  • Code Execution for writing and running code on the fly
  • Function Calling for taking actions via API Integrations
  • Support for New Modalities: GPT-4-Vision, DALLE-3, and Text-to-Speech models and Voice Activations

Link to Keynote Presentation: