The way programmers pay for OpenAI's models per token, opened as a private beta in June 2020 and the foundation of most of the products of the era, including the ones that pretend otherwise. The record notes that the price per million tokens, posted publicly and cut regularly, became a number people followed like a stock, and that 'it's just a wrapper' is filed under ChatGPT Wrapper.
Correction: the API did not become public in 2020. The beta ran on a waitlist for eighteen months; general availability came in November 2021, which is when the wrappers began in earnest.
March 2023, the gpt-3.5-turbo price announced at a tenth of the previous model's, and a wave of threads recalculating business plans. The record notes that the price of intelligence being cut by 90 per cent was reported as a footnote.
The record notes that the API predates ChatGPT by two and a half years, and that the whole first wave of AI startups was people with an API key and a landing page, which was also the second wave.
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