The drip-feeding seems crazy to me. Open AI is undermining their reputation by forcing almost everybody to use the older, lower-quality models. Even if customers are willing to pay for GPT 4, they're being told to wait at the back of the line.
Wait for what!? Christmas? When we can open our presents and have a GPT 4 inside?
It's like they took a leaf from Google's "how to guarantee the failure of a new product" marketing. That is: restrict access, ensuring that to word-of-mouth marketing can't possibly work because none of your friends are allowed to try the product.
The announcement here is "general availability" of the GPT-4 model...
...but not the 32K context model. Not the multi-modal version with image input. No fine-tuning. Only one model (chat).
As of today, I can only access GPT 3.5 via Azure Open AI service and the Open AI API account that I have.
What's the point of all these arbitrary restrictions on who can access what model!?
I can use GPT 4 via Chat, but not an API. I can use an enhanced version of Dall-E via Bing Image Creator, but not the OpenAI API. Some vendors that have been blessed by the Great and Benevolent Sam Altman have access to GPT-4 32K, the rest of us don't.
Sell the product, not the access to it.
Don't be like the Soviet Union, where you had to "know someone" to get access.
Wait for what!? Christmas? When we can open our presents and have a GPT 4 inside?
It's like they took a leaf from Google's "how to guarantee the failure of a new product" marketing. That is: restrict access, ensuring that to word-of-mouth marketing can't possibly work because none of your friends are allowed to try the product.
The announcement here is "general availability" of the GPT-4 model...
...but not the 32K context model. Not the multi-modal version with image input. No fine-tuning. Only one model (chat).
As of today, I can only access GPT 3.5 via Azure Open AI service and the Open AI API account that I have.
What's the point of all these arbitrary restrictions on who can access what model!?
I can use GPT 4 via Chat, but not an API. I can use an enhanced version of Dall-E via Bing Image Creator, but not the OpenAI API. Some vendors that have been blessed by the Great and Benevolent Sam Altman have access to GPT-4 32K, the rest of us don't.
Sell the product, not the access to it.
Don't be like the Soviet Union, where you had to "know someone" to get access.