Custom GPT agents
On November 6, 2023, OpenAI introduced functionality that allows users to create custom, personalized versions of ChatGPT. These custom GPTs created by users can be shared with other users through OpenAI’s GPT Store. This allows users without programming experience to add functionality to ChatGPT by simply writing instructions in natural language, and it also allows users with programming experience to connect ChatGPT to their applications, making such applications available to hundreds of millions of users.
Initially, these were called “custom GPTs,” but now they are simply called GPTs. That may be confusing since the transformer technology used in most AI models is called generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), and the OpenAI implementation of these models is also called GPT with a version, such as GPT-3.5 or GPT 4.
In this section, when we use the name “GPT,” unless otherwise noted, it means the custom GPTs that you can...
