OpenAI releases ChatGPT plugins and open-sources the retrieval plugin

Released ChatGPT plugins and open-sourced the retrieval plugin

Why it matters

The first case of a lab putting retrieval augmentation on its own product surface; a direct demand signal for the vector DB ecosystem

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Officialopenai.comhttps://openai.com/index/chatgpt-plugins/

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