OpenAI's Developer Conference and the Embrace of Consumer Technology

OpenAI held its first developer conference, signaling their shift towards being a consumer technology company. The conference highlighted their focus on price and speed, with plans to prioritize both in future developments. They introduced an API for GPT-4 that reduces costs and allows users to create system prompts and examples. OpenAI also announced the ability for users to train their own GPT models, albeit at a high cost. While the conference received mixed reviews from researchers and some criticism for a lack of major announcements, it played a significant role in normalizing AI as a marketable product.