>However, the ability of people to build upon GPT-3 was hampered by one major factor: it was not publicly released. Instead, OpenAI opted to commercialize it an

>However, the ability of people to build upon GPT-3 was hampered by one major factor: it was not publicly released. Instead, OpenAI opted to commercialize it and only provide access to it via a paid API. This made sense given OpenAI’s for profit nature, but went against the common practice of AI researchers releasing AI models for others to build upon. So, since last year multiple organizations have worked towards creating their own version of GPT-3, and as I’ll go over in this article at this point roughly half a dozen such gigantic GPT-3 esque models have been developed. Seems like aside from Eleuther.ai you can’t use the models freely either, correct me if I’m wrong.