OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist

OpenAI is committed to the safe deployment of AI. Since the launch of our API, we’ve made deploying applications faster and more streamlined while adding new safety features. Our progress with safeguards makes it possible to remove the waitlist for GPT‑3. Starting today, developers insupported countries⁠(opens in a new window)cansign up⁠(opens in a new window)and start experimenting with our API right away.

Improvements to our API over the past year include theInstruct Series⁠(opens in a new window)models that adhere better to human instructions, specialized endpoints for more truthfulquestion-answering⁠(opens in a new window), and a freecontent filter⁠(opens in a new window)to help developers mitigate abuse. Our work also allows us to review applications before theygo live⁠(opens in a new window), monitor for misuse, support developers as their product scales, and betterunderstand the effects⁠(opens in a new window)of this technology.

Other changes include an improved Playground, which makes it easy to prototype with our models, anexample library⁠(opens in a new window)with dozens of prompts to get developers started, andCodex⁠, a new model that translates natural language into code.

Tens of thousands of developers are already taking advantage of powerful AI models through our platform. We believe that by opening access to these models via an easy-to-use API, more developers will find creative ways to apply AI to a large number of useful applications and open problems.

To ensure API-backed applications are built responsibly, we providetools⁠(opens in a new window)and help developers usebest practices⁠(opens in a new window)so they can bring their applications to production quickly and safely. As our systems evolve and we work to improve the capabilities of our safeguards, we expect to continue streamlining the process for developers, refining ourusage guidelines⁠(opens in a new window), and allowing even more use cases over time.

As another step in this direction, we are also updating ourcontent guidelines⁠(opens in a new window)to clarify what kind of content our API can be used to generate. Our policies have always prohibited the use of our API in ways that do not adhere to the principles described in ourCharter⁠, and content like hate speech remains prohibited.

To help developers ensure their applications are used for their intended purpose, prevent potential misuse, and adhere to our content guidelines, we offer developers a free content filter. We are currently testing targeted filters for specific content categories with some customers.

We are also prohibiting certain types of content on our API, like adult content, where our system is not currently able to reliably discern harmful from acceptable use. We are continually working to make our content filters more robust and we intend to allow acceptable use within some categories as our system improves.

We’re excited to have the safeguards in place to open up GPT‑3 for more developers. As our safeguards continue to improve, we will expand how the API can be used while further improving the experience for our users.Sign up⁠(opens in a new window)today and try it out.