Unleashing the Full Potential of Chat GPT: Third-Party Plugins

26 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dharmesh Shah highlights the rapid adoption of ChatGPT, noting its 100 million users within two months. He explains that the current version of ChatGPT is limited to its 2021 knowledge base and cannot access the internet, real‑time data, or proprietary sources such as stock prices or HubSpot analytics. Shah then relays Sam Altman’s announcement at a Sequoia event that third‑party plugins will be introduced, allowing external developers to inject live data and services into the ChatGPT experience. He frames this development as analogous to the launch of the iPhone App Store: moving from a standalone, feature‑rich chat application to a broader, extensible chat ecosystem where anyone can build and integrate apps.

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ChatGPT has taken off in a big way, as we all know, 100 million plus users in 2 months. So one of the big announcements that happened while I was there at the Sequoia event that Sam Altman dropped was they're going to add what are called plugins to ChatGPT. So right now, when you interact with ChatGPT, you can type things and it uses its corpus from 2021 and its reasoning engine to give you answers back. But it can't talk to the internet, has access to no proprietary data sources, can't look up the stock price, can't look at your analytics data at HubSpot, has access to none of those things. What they're saying is we're going to now open that up so third-party developers can kind of inject those things into the ChatGPT experience. So the way I think everyone should be thinking about this is this is like the App Store was for iPhone, which is, oh, we've got this super popular thing called the iPhone and we have our own apps, which is great. It does these 17 things, but now we're going to let anyone build apps. So it's now instead of being a chat app, a really, really smart one, it's now a chat ecosystem.