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Ask HN: How are companies releasing GPT-4 powered products so fast?

8 pointsby rajeshp1986about 2 years ago
I am aware of the OpenAI GPT-4 beta testing program so many companies must be using the beta APIs. I still don&#x27;t understand how so many companies have announced + launched full fledged production features powered by GPT-4. Are most of these just half baked features or is everyone banking on the OpenAI hype?<p>[1] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amanrsanger&#x2F;status&#x2F;1635689751943712768 [2] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BeMyEyes&#x2F;status&#x2F;1635690254689599488 [3] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.duolingo.com&#x2F;duolingo-max&#x2F;

5 comments

neximo64about 2 years ago
They had access to gpt4 for a while. Its not suddenly.
anitakirkovskaabout 2 years ago
All of them have a partnership with OpenAI, from which they might have gotten access earlier to test &amp; explore use-cases
iamflimflam1about 2 years ago
The changes required to use the ChatGPT API that was released recently were very minimal.<p>And to use the new models is just a single line change.<p>So it’s very easy to switch over - if you have access.<p>Good example code here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atomic14&#x2F;command_line_chatgpt">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atomic14&#x2F;command_line_chatgpt</a>
mdmglrabout 2 years ago
It’s been a few months now that ChatGPT was released. So I think it’s reasonable to assume in that time any small team could have developed features with the assumption those APIs would become available at a later date.
conversiosabout 2 years ago
We are also getting fascinated by this process. Maybe just a gimmick?