ChatGPT plugins, browsing and code interpreter

OpenAI · 23 March 2023

ChatGPT can call third-party APIs through plugins, plus OpenAI-built web browsing and a sandboxed Python code interpreter, in a waitlisted alpha.

First mainstream LLM tool-use platform, with services described by a manifest and OpenAPI spec that ChatGPT could call. Browsing used Bing; the code interpreter ran Python for analysis and file conversion. Superseded by function calling (June 2023) and GPTs.

Date

Thursday, 23 March 2023

Lab

OpenAI

Kind

feature

Access

app only

Price

ChatGPT Plus waitlist

Details come from a search-result summary of press coverage (VoiceBot, Search Engine Journal) plus Wikipedia; the OpenAI post itself was not opened. Plugins were later wound down in favor of GPTs/Actions (inference).

Sources

1. voicebot.ai/2023/03/23/new-chatgpt-plugins-link-present-day-internet-and-third-party-apps-
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT

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