SAN FRANCISCO — After four months since the launch of customizable bots for only paid subscribers, OpenAI is finally making its GPT store accessible to free users.
Announced at the company’s Spring update livestream, this new development means that everyone now has access to millions of custom chatbots on its GPT store. The store lets ChatGPT Plus subscribers create their own chatbots, called GPTs, and share them.
Additionally, OpenAI noted that it is not only allowing users to browse its GPT Store and use custom bots but also making a number of its previously subscription-only features available to free users of ChatGPT.
Notably, this is a unique approach to offering an engagement-based revenue-sharing program for GPT builders — which it started testing in March.
With the feature now accessible to free users, they can access GPTs in the store from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. However, free users cannot create custom GPTs.
Whether the Microsoft-backed company will offer free users to create custom GPTs remains to be seen, but with the new access given to free users, the possibility of allowing users might just be right around the corner.
Separately from the GPT Store announcement, OpenAI also announced the release of GPT-4o, a multimodal “omnimodel” featuring a chatbot with vision-based analysis and live chat features.
This move aligns with OpenAI’s vision of using AI to revolutionize the globe, positioning it as a potential challenger to the dominance of Google in the innovation stage.
