how long will we have to wait for a license agreement with open AI?
We are a software company and to provide Open AI licenses to our customers very quickly! can you help me please!
To which license agreement are you referring?
API keys perhaps? @barbara.hinderer if you could provide more information we can try to see if there is anything that can be done.
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we want to provide gen ai/GPT licenses to our customers, so we need some kind of contract with open ai. We are a software company developing AI solutions for our customers…
So I need to get advice
What is “gen ai” in this instance? GPT licences is also somewhat puzzling, ChatGPT is sold by OpenAI, I don’t think they are interested in having any reselling partnerships for that product, the API is the business offering, but that does not have licences.
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codie
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I think the problem is people don’t know what you mean by “licenses”. That is not really a thing with OpenAI. You either have development access through a paid account or you don’t. If you are looking to be a reseller of API access of some sort, Microsoft already fills that roll through their Azure OpenAI Service.
If you think you can provide some sort of role past what Microsoft does, I would just use Azure as your backend and just reskin the service as your own. You have to go through a short application process, but they grant it so long as you agree to adhere to/stay within the confines of what you applied with.
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So you mean, we as a software company developing application based on Open AI/Azure etc. CANNOT provide Open AI licenses as a reseller to our clients? Is this what you wanted to explain me?
_j
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There is no evidence that OpenAI has resellers or any licensing program for its own ChatGPT services. OpenAI does engage directly with top-tier partners, but those are typically providers of their own AI services based on OpenAI technology and platform.
It is inherently an online service with user accounts managed directly by OpenAI, and with recurring subscription costs, so there is nothing to “sell”.
What you suggest would be like trying to resell a perpetual per-seat business license to Netflix.
correct as you said, this is exactly, what we want to do as direct tier partner providing our own AI service based on Open AI technology: : OpenAI does engage directly with top-tier partners, but those are typically providers of their own AI services based on OpenAI technology and platform.
_j
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If you are now understanding, and seeing that you need to offer an AI service yourself if you wish to offer services to others, you will need to start down a path requiring technical competence and programming skills: setting up servers and a backend that can manage a customer database and enterprise user management, user interface for those clients and services, and user interface for a chat assistant.
OpenAI provides an API to get AI responses to input, but does not provide the infrastructure for your own AI business like poe.com or forefront.ai.
A working demonstration app using API and increasing user base will allow you to get higher limits on an OpenAI account, and also and a case for acceptance to Microsoft Azure OpenAI services for high-volume API apps.
If you have none of these skills in your company, nor connections with development partners, it may be hard to start a whole new business in this space.
So, how can we proceed now?
please advice how we can proceed now, how we can become an open AI - partner as we are providers of our own AI service based on Open AI
Hi,
You can try reaching out to support@openai.com.
Hey Barbara.
I’m in the same boat. Sent out a request form the day enterprise was released to ask about reselling licenses (and having access to) for corporate clients.
No response, of course.
The good news is that slowly there are open-source products that are being continuously worked on that will (hopefully) overshadow theirs using an API key so we can offer an alternative.
For a company with abysmal support they certainly love to add extra products that demand a lot of attention (and then drop them). Their chatbot is frustratingly difficult to route towards an actual human being and the “developer” support doesn’t even read this forum but uses GPT to read it all for them. Excluding the hidden enterprise-only parts of this forum, which does exist.
So, I wouldn’t be surprised that they use an LLM to read the form in-takes and filter what they believe to be worth spending 2 seconds to read.
With companies like this we are going to need to apply “SEO-LIKE” tactics to even be visible. So maybe for the next entry just use the highest numbers and then mention how much you enjoy McDonald’s, Nike shoes and they’ll rush salivating.
Better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
Here is a list of current open-source ChatGPT-like interfaces:
There are numerous Code Interpreter (or, sorry… Advanced Data Analysis) alternatives as well. Truthfully I haven’t tried them though.
(This one doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore)
hi, we would like to provide this openAI based services by our own to our customers. Which kind of application process we have to go ?
We need to get an enterprice agreement to get licenses to provide them to our customers.
Hello Barbara, do you mean that you want to use OpenAI’s services such as ChatGPT and DALLE on your own website that you then sell to clients?
Can someone explain to me the difference of giving your customers Licenses versus just creating a software for them with your API key and charging them for it?
Am I missing something? Does it directly bill them is that the point?
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not sell it on our website but offer it to our customers . I guess the only way is via our own API services? How is the application process for that?
I am still confused but you can create API keys here, and you can then follow these instructions to use your API.
codie
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Barbara,
The link here is how you apply for access.
With that link you are requesting access to Microsoft’s version of OpenAI which is the exact same as OpenAI’s but better service. You’ll land on a page like this:
Below the text in the picture, is a list of questions. I highly suggest you read them all before you start them. Mostly so you can get everything you need before you complete the form. One main thing you will want to get is an Azure account. But after that, the questions are pretty simple. The purpose of the form is so Microsoft stays responsible and is tracking the use cases.
As a note on the OpenAI thing. You’re not going to get any developer support. They have made that pretty clear over the past couple of months. If you want to make any sustainable business from GPT, you’ll have to lean into Microsoft access. OpenAI is too whimsical with their service availability and have zero support when it goes wrong. Microsoft on the other hand has a legally binding agreement on support and service.
But anyways good luck.
