Nine months since thelaunchof our first commercial product, theOpenAI API(opens in a new window), more than 300 applications are now using GPT‑3, and tens of thousands of developers around the globe are building on our platform. We currently generate an average of 4.5 billion words per day, and continue to scale production traffic.
Given any text prompt like a phrase or a sentence, GPT‑3 returns a text completion in natural language. Developers can “program” GPT‑3 by showing it just a few examples or “prompts.” We’ve designed the API to be both simple for anyone to use but also flexible enough to make machine learning teams more productive.
## Applications and industries
To date, over 300 apps are using GPT‑3 across varying categories and industries, from productivity and education to creativity and games. These applications utilize a suite of GPT‑3’s diverse capabilities (and have helped us discover new ones!). A few of these include:
Viablehelps companies better understand their customers by using GPT‑3 to provide useful insights from customer feedback in easy-to-understand summaries.
Using GPT‑3, Viable identifies themes, emotions, and sentiment from surveys, help desk tickets, live chat logs, reviews, and more. It then pulls insights from this aggregated feedback and provides a summary in seconds.
For example, if asked,_What’s frustrating our customers about the checkout experience?_, Viable might provide the insight:_Customers are frustrated with the checkout flow because it takes too long to load. They also want a way to edit their address in checkout and save multiple payment methods._
> GPT-3’s ability to identify themes from natural language and generate summaries allows Viable to give product, customer experience, and marketing teams at companies across industries a better understanding of their customers’ wants and needs.
Daniel Erickson, CEO of Viable
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Lucy Premieres at Sundance(opens in a new window)on Vimeo.
Fable Studiois creating a new genre of interactive stories and using GPT‑3 to help power their story-driven “Virtual Beings.”
Lucy, the hero of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’sWolves in the Walls(opens in a new window), which was adapted by Fable into the Emmy Award-winning VR experience, can have natural conversations with people thanks to dialogue generated by GPT‑3. Lucy appeared as a guest at Sundance Film Festival 2021 and presented her own movie,_Dracula_.
> GPT-3 has given us the ability to give our characters life. We’re excited to combine an artist’s vision, AI, and emotional intelligence to create powerful narratives, and believe that one day, everyone will know a Virtual Being.
Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable Studio
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Algoliauses GPT‑3 in their Algolia Answers product to offer relevant, lightning-fast semantic search for their customers.
When the OpenAI API launched, Algolia partnered with OpenAI to integrate GPT‑3 with their advanced search technology in order to create their new Answers product that better understands customers’ questions and connects them to the specific part of the content that answers their questions. Algolia Answers helps publishers and customer support help desks query in natural language and surface nontrivial answers. After running tests of GPT‑3 on 2.1 million news articles, Algolia saw 91% precision or better and Algolia was able to accurately answer complex natural language questions four times more often than BERT.
We’ve seen great results from Algolia Answers on questions that are difficult to answer with textual search alone,” said Peter Buffington, Product Manager at ABC Australia. “It was able to return very relevant, evergreen content from our news archives for questions such as ‘Why does a volcano erupt?’”
> GPT-3 allows Algolia to answer more complex queries than ever before with our Algolia Answers product, identifying deeper contextual information to improve the quality of results and deliver them in seconds.
Dustin Coates, Product and GTM Manager at Algolia
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## Platform improvements
As we scale access, our team is continually improving the platform—from implementing a content filter to offering new features for developers including our recently launched:
Prompt design examples that users can begin programming with directly.
## Our growing developer community
We have a growing community of tens of thousands of developers around the world, with the majority across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. We’ve also found that many of our developers tend to be those without a traditional AI or software engineering background. It’s been encouraging to hear from several of our developers that their first experience with an API or programming has been with OpenAI’s interface.
> For myself, and other mission-driven innovators, OpenAI has given us the tool we finally need to make transformative change in the community with GPT‑3. With natural language processing, technical experience is no longer a barrier, and we can truly keep our focus on solving real world problems. In my work with a lot of first-time developers, those who are most successful at building with GPT‑3 are great communicators as they are able to unlock the nuances of prompt design. > > > _—_ Abran Maldonado, Co-Founder of Create Labs
> Programming with GPT‑3 can feel like a much more creative process compared to traditional coding because of the natural language prompts. I believe AI will be integrated into every product in the future, and it’s been a pleasure working with developers of all experience levels from across the world who are creating innovative apps through the API. > > > _—_ Natalie Pistunovich, Lead Developer Advocate at Aerospike, Founder of Women Techmakers Berlin
## Call for developers
We think there are still many new capabilities of GPT‑3 yet to be discovered and we want you to help us uncover them! In a similar spirit to our previousRequests for Researchand Y Combinator’sRequests for Startups(opens in a new window), we’d love to see our current and future developers push the limits of what’s possible with GPT‑3 and build new applications in the following areas:
We are happy to support hackathons and provide API access for these events, especially if they include challenges in the above areas (we of course are open to other challenge areas as well!). Please email [email protected] with details about the event. We’re excited to see what our developers build next.
_If you are interested in joining our Applied AI team, who focus on bringing OpenAI’s technology and products to the world,__we’re hiring__!_
OpenAI, Ashley Pilipiszyn
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