OpenAI is exploring methods for customers to register to third-party apps utilizing their ChatGPT account, the corporate famous on a net web page revealed Tuesday. OpenAI is presently gauging curiosity from builders who may wish to combine this service into their apps.
ChatGPT is shortly turning into one of many largest shopper software on the planet, now with roughly 600 million month-to-month lively customers. To capitalize on this recognition, OpenAI appears desirous to attempt to develop into different shopper areas, corresponding to on-line procuring, social media, and private gadgets. A possible “Sign up with ChatGPT” characteristic may assist OpenAI compete with different large shopper know-how corporations — corresponding to Apple, Google, Microsoft — that assist folks with a variety of on-line providers, together with a fast technique to register to third-party apps.
Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a preview of the “Sign up with ChatGPT” expertise for builders in Codex CLI, the corporate’s open supply AI coding instrument for terminals. The characteristic let builders join their ChatGPT Free, Plus, or Professional accounts to their API accounts. OpenAI supplied Plus customers $5 in API credit to register with ChatGPT, and Professional customers $50 in API credit.
OpenAI appears to be concerned about integrating the sign-in service with a broad array of corporations. The developer curiosity type asks for corporations to specify their app’s person base, starting from tiny corporations with fewer than 1,000 weekly customers to large apps with over 100 million weekly customers. The shape additionally asks builders how they cost for AI options as we speak and whether or not they’re prospects of the OpenAI API.
CEO Sam Altman famous in 2023 that the corporate might look right into a “register with OpenAI” characteristic in 2024. Nevertheless, it now seems OpenAI is extra significantly constructing out the potential as we speak, in 2025. It’s unclear when the sign-in characteristic would go reside for customers of ChatGPT or what number of corporations have signed as much as be a part of it.
OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.
