OpenAI releases function calling 🚀, This changes EVERYTHING! 💰

Yar Asfand Malik
2 min readJun 14, 2023

Hello human, happy Wednesday!

Today’s exciting day in AI.

Here’s what’s trending:

  • 💥 OpenAI rolled out new API updates. Function calling, reduced prices, model upgrades, and more. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!
  • 🙌 92% programmars are using AI coding tools, already resulting in 35% productivity boost. But they demand something.
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Trending AI News

➡️ OpenAI released new updates for its models. The most important is ‘function calling’ for GPT-4.

Which in simple terms means, it will help developers execute specific functions, according to the functionality developers describe.

The models have been fine-tuned to intelligently detect when a function needs to be called and respond with JSON objects that adhere to the function signature.

Also, the new upgraded version of 3.5-turbo now supports 16k context information. (Previously, 4K)

Which means, now it can read and process a longer story of upto 16,000 words instead of just a short paragraph. So it will be able to understand the context better and stay on topic.

OpenAI has also reduced the price — 25% — for 3.5-turbo input tokens.

Good news, devs!

What’s more, OpenAI has bed farewell to its older models — they won’t be getting any new updates.

Read the full story here.

➡️ Github surveyed 5000 US-based programmars working accross 1,000 companies — and the survey shows 92% of them are already using AI coding tools at work and/or in their personal lives.

These tools help them write code faster and better, both at work and even in their free time.

So, while you might think developers spend all their time typing away, they also rely on AI to make their lives easier.

According to the same survey, 4 out of 5 developers believe that AI coding tools can actually improve teamwork.

And before you worry about the quality of the code, it turns out that developers care about that more than just getting things done fast.

They value collaboration and code quality over churning out a ton of code.

The survey showed that developers want to learn new skills and have a positive impact on their work.

They enjoy working with other developers, with an average of 21 teammates on each project.

However, they also demand that performance metrics should change now: bosses should calculate performance based on the quality and team collaboration, not with how fast things get done.

Learn more.

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Yar Asfand Malik

3x Founder, Currently creating the Biggest Culture Platform for Distributed Teams