All the news from OpenAI’s first developer conference

Negotiations over the status of fired CEO Sam Altman are done for the night, but The Information reports that OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon told employees in a memo that “We are still working toward a resolution” that would restore Altman, former president Greg Brockman, and others.

It’s unclear who “we” refers to — as we reported earlier, a sticking point in the negotiations has been that for Altman to return, the other board members would have to leave.

Here at DevDay, I’ve been watching demos of OpenAI employees building custom GPT agents. It’s impressively simple to build one with zero coding knowledge. I watched one GPT be built in maybe three minutes and it just worked.

The fact that these are made using entirely natural language means, I think, that people will make a lot of them. OpenAI wants that so it can become the first true AI platform, though it still needs to figure out how to transparently compensate creators.

I’m here at OpenAI’s DevDay, where the press just had a roundtable Q&A with CEO Sam Altman and CTO Mira Murati. When asked how the company is going to calculate its payouts to creators for the use of their custom GPTs through its store, Altman was clear that all that is still being figured out:

“We’re going to start with just sharing a part of the [ChatGPT] subscription revenue overall. There will be a tier based off how many active users you have, plus some category bonuses. I expect that to evolve a lot.”

OpenAI just gave away $500 in credits to everyone in the audience. The company clearly wants developers to get moving with its new tools.

Altman said OpenAI will be holding another developer event next year. “What we launched today is going to look very quaint relative to what we’re busy creating for you now.”

The store will let users share and sell their custom GPT bots. Sam Altman says OpenAI is going to “pay people who build the most useful and the most used GPTs” a portion of the company’s revenue.

The chatbot uses the latest version of OpenAI’s large language model, allowing it to browse the web to write and run code, analyze data, and more. It also won’t have the “annoying” drop-down model-picker menu — it will know which model to use automatically.

They’re called GPTs and are meant to be tailored to specific uses.

You’ll be able to add custom instructions, knowledge, and actions and can program them by typing what you want them to do.

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The Microsoft CEO says, “We love you guys ... You guys have built something magical.”

He spent a couple minutes talking about Microsoft’s vision for putting AI everywhere (he said “Copilot” a lot).

“I’m excited for us to build AGI together,” Altman said.

Here’s Sam Altman on the new program, which is available to ChatGPT Enterprise and API users:

We can defend our customers and pay the costs incurred if you face legal claims around copyright infringement.

Altman says developers said they’d build a lot more if OpenAI could lower the price. So it’s lowing the price by 3x for input tokens and 2x for output tokens.

OpenAI will work on speed gains for developers next. It’ll be “a lot faster” soon, he says.

probably more — that GPT4’s knowledge ended in 2021. We will try to never let it get that out of date again,” Sam Altman said on stage.

Good news for ChatGPT users, bad news for anyone scared of how disruptive a current version of this system could be.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman just announced GPT-4 Turbo, the latest version of the company’s GPT large language model. It comes with several improvements, including “better world knowledge” and a 128,000 token window, allowing for longer prompts.

The OpenAI CEO says 2 million developers are now working with the company’s tools, and around 460 companies on the Fortune 500 companies are using its products.

The really big number? 100 million people are using ChatGPT weekly. That’s huge.

You can watch live via our storystream. The company is expected to announce updates to GPT-4 and more.