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Sam Altman was also surprised that no one built ChatGPT before OpenAI: "we had the model for ChatGPT in the API for ~10 months before we made ChatGPT .. I sort of thought someone (else) was gonna just build it" (reminder: there are *many* similarly unbuilt products right now)

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Tim Connorsvor 3 Jahren

I remember that people definitely built chatbot interfaces on gpt-3 when it first came out

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nearvor 3 Jahren

sure, but none of them were as good of a product as ChatGPT

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WaifuDev 🌸☢️vor 3 Jahren

It costs too much for business to run. Although cutting edge. Its not cost effective.

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xuevor 3 Jahren

The GPT-3 API is expensive. ChatGPT is free. Why would anyone but OpenAI build it?

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Hassan Hayat 🔥vor 3 Jahren

Offering it for free at scale is challenging. Assuming 2c per avg request, 1M users/day sending avg 10 requests/day is $200K/day. That's quite the pre-seed round you need to get that going

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Vijayabhaskar Jvor 3 Jahren

The success of ChatGPT is achieved only because it was free to the public, it makes no sense to anyone to burn millions.

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Harish Gargvor 3 Jahren

Their policies specifically prohibited it. They changed the policy right around the time it was about to be released

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lab member 001vor 3 Jahren

"Sam Altman was also surprised that no one built AI waifu before OpenAI"

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cupvor 3 Jahren

General-purpose chatbots were explicitly banned for most of the time GPT-3 has been available.

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Johan Addavor 3 Jahren

Apparently it cost $3M per day to run ChatGPT. Try to pitch that to any VCs lol

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