The GPT store was delayed in December due to a change in leadership shortly after its launch in November.
Explore the details as the highly-anticipated Delayed OpenAI GPT Store Launches Next Week.
According to an email sent to the makers of the generative pretend transformer (GPT), OpenAI’s GPT Store, a marketplace where users may exchange and trade custom artificial intelligence (AI) agents, has postponed its launch and will now go live the next week.
The generative pretend transformer (GPT) developers received an email stating that OpenAI’s GPT Store, a platform for users to trade and exchange bespoke AI agents, had postponed its launch and will now go live the following week.
Developers only need to input the features they would like their GPT to have in plain English, and GPT Builder, an OpenAI tool for creating GPTs, will try to create an AI-powered chatbot to carry them out.
Developers have been allowed to build and share GPTs with others directly through the ChatGPT website since shortly after DevDay, although they cannot be seen by the public.
If the GPT store will start with a revenue-sharing plan, such information is still unknown.
In an email, Altman and CTO Meera Murthy stated that the GPT Store would be launching in November, but they did not have any concrete plans for GPT monetization as of yet, according to my colleague Devin Coldway.
There has been no discussion of what developers can expect in terms of payment.
After CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board in November, along with the disapproval of investors and staff,
OpenAI’s GPT store—which had been promised during DevDay last year—was postponed until December. With a new board, it was restored following a panic.
The company first announced in November that it would allow third parties to use its GPT-4 main language model to create artificial intelligence agents or GPTs.
TechCrunch reports that GPTs can be as basic or complex as a developer wants, and they don’t require any coding knowledge.
ChatGPT-style chatbots, such as those that guide users through conversations or explain Gen Z humor, can be customized by users through the store, which is only available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscribers.
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Users will be able to share and utilize their GPTs through the store, instead of accessing bespoke GPTs made by OpenAI via ChatGPT Plus’ Explore tab.
Though it hasn’t yet revealed any details on the plan, OpenAI has stated that it will find a way to pay GPT developers according to how much the market uses their AI agents.
