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Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Practitioners talking LLMs, CodeGen, Agents, Multimodality, AI UX, GPU Infra and all things Software 3.0

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The Unoptimized Version of OpenAI

I do think that having had conversations with some OpenAI employees in the past, whatever they released in like November was the most unoptimized version of this. I can't explain the degree of price reduction, but I can explain the motivations of it. And then lastly, I'll just point out that embeddings are a form of lock-in. So it's actually very much in this in Open AI's incentive to lower the cost of embeddings because then you embed the whole world in OpenAI's image.

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