Hello everyone! I’m new to this forum, so let me introduce myself. I’m an “old-school” programmer, and for the past few months, I’ve become interested in Generative AI. I’d like to write an application that generates text and images based on user input. Are there any APIs that can be used for free to learn?
Welcome @enea.colosso
Generative AI consumes significant compute, which is why it isn’t free.
To facilitate ease of learning, Gen-AI companies provide a trial credits grant to qualifying newcomers.
OpenAI had a grants program running for new comers for almost 3 years.
To add to what @sps wrote,
Generative AI is shockingly cheap right now.
$5 will get you more than 6-million input tokens and 6-million output tokens with gpt-4o-mini
That’s about 4.5-million words in and out, that’s on the order of 10x the word count of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
So, a $5 investment should cover just about any learning period you need.
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