ChatGPT plugins

OpenAI · March 23, 2023 · Architecture

OpenAI gave ChatGPT the ability to call third-party services, plus its own browsing and code-interpreter plugins, initially to a waitlist.

Why it matters

The first time a mass-market language model could act outside its own text box. It is the origin of the tool-use pattern every later agent is built on, and OpenAI said so directly: it expected open standards to emerge for exposing an AI-facing interface.

This is LLM World's historical reading, not a claim by OpenAI. The facts above and the sources below are what it rests on.

Sources

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Dateline 'March 23, 2023' read directly from a Wayback capture of OpenAI's own announcement taken two days later. openai.com blocks automated fetches, so the live URL was not read.

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