SAN FRANCISCO – Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI has launched its GPT Store, a marketplace for personalized artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.
The GPT Store is housed within the popular chatbot ChatGPT and is a place for users to discover and create GPT or AI customized for tasks such as teaching math or designing stickers.
It’s OpenAI’s attempt to build on the consumer success of ChatGPT, which introduced generative AI to the world last year and dazzled users with its ability to write human prose and poetry.
ChatGPT quickly became one of the fastest growing apps ever, but growth slowed as some schools dropped out and the novelty of the chatbot wore off.
The GPT Store will initially be made available to users who have paid ChatGPT plans, OpenAI said. In the next few months, the company intends to add a way for GPT brand creators to monetize their personalized AI.
The Microsoft-backed startup announced the GPT Store in November at its first developer conference. It was originally scheduled to launch later that month.
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However, in December, OpenAI delayed the launch of the GPT store, citing an internal message that it was continuing to “improve” the GPT tokens based on customer feedback.
The delay comes against the backdrop of the surprise ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by the company’s board and his reinstatement as employees threatened to walk out.
In addition, OpenAI said Wednesday that it is launching ChatGPT Team, a version of ChatGPT that companies pay for so their employees can use ChatGPT at work.
ChatGPT Team separates company data so that any information entered into the chatbot remains private to the company. ChatGPT Team costs $25 to $30 per user per month.
