OpenAI’s app store for GPTs will launch next week
OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models, sometime in the coming week.
In an email viewed by TechCrunch, OpenAI said that developers building GPTs will have to review the company’s updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure that their GPTs are compliant before they’re eligible for listing in the store, the GPT Store. They’ll also have to verify their builder profiled and ensure that their GPTs are published as “public.”
The GPT Store was announced last year during OpenAI’s first annual developer conference, DevDay, but delayed in December — almost certainly due to the leadership shakeup that occurred in November, just after the initial announcement.
Since shortly after DevDay, developers have been able to make and share GPTs with others directly but not publicly list them.
Still unclear is whether the GPT Store will launch with a revenue-sharing scheme. As of November, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CTO Mira Murati told my colleague Devin Coldewey that there wasn’t a firm plan, and the email about the store’s coming launch makes no mention of what developers can expect on the payments front — if anything.
An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch that more will be revealed next week.
