Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer the ownership of a fine-tuned model to another Org?
I haven’t found any information about that, and the Open AI help page does not give me an option to open a ticket inquiring about that.
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I don’t know if that’s possible. What’s your particular use case?
Maybe you could expose calls to a model from org_a to a different org_b via an API exposed by org_a and consumed by org_b. Just a wrapper, after all.
We developed a model for one of our clients and it is consuming it via our wrapper as you said.
But we would like to give the client the option to “buy” the model ownership from us.
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The only thing I can think of is sell them the .jsonl file and they will have to train it themselves on their account.
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Exactly my thoughts - As far as I know we cannot share our fine-tuned models, at least yet. But @curt.kennedy 's solution seems perfect.
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The good thing about selling them the .jsonl file is that they can use it to train other future models down the line, and they get total visibility of what the training data consists of, and can add to it without duplicating.
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The problem is the cost to retrain a model, I hope they provide a solution for that in the future.
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One thing you could do is sell them the .jsonl file and include your cost of training, to recoup your cost, with the stipulation that it will cost them $X for them to retrain it. So, say it costs you $1000 to train the model, and they really really want the model … then sell it for $4000, you make $3000 (75% margin), and if it’s good, they will pay the $1000 to re-train it.
Can you tell I’m an entrepreneur? 
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We considered transferring the org ownership all together but to do so we would have to make sure to have an exclusive org for each project, does not seem ideal.
I hope once it is GA in Azure, let’s say, a better solution is provided.
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Not sure about transfer but if you have to do this again in future, ask them to add you to their org and then fine-tune using that organization ID. Once everything is done, they’ll have ownership of the model and the JSONL.
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One other advantage of selling the JSONL is that, if the dataset is yours, you can re-sell it! Now it becomes a product for your catalog.