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ChatGPT Enterprise: A New Llama 2 Competitor?

OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise is the latest entrant into the competitive world of AI assistants. It also coincides with the disappearance of Microsoft's AzureChatGPT.
Created on August 28|Last edited on August 29
OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise is the latest entrant into the increasingly competitive world of business-focused AI assistants. This advanced, secure, and highly customizable version aims to set a new standard in the corporate world. But it's not alone; it faces stiff competition from open-source options like Llama 2 and Llama 2 Code. Interestingly, this release coincides with the disappearance of Microsoft's AzureChatGPT repository, an open-source frontend for the OpenAI API.

Key Offerings

Security and Privacy: A standout feature of ChatGPT Enterprise is its SOC 2 compliance and robust encryption protocols. It ensures maximum data privacy and security, allowing enterprises to breathe easy.
Performance: Speed is a major selling point. ChatGPT Enterprise is up to two times faster than its predecessor, making data analysis and other complex tasks more efficient.
Customization: OpenAI offers significant customization options, including shared chat templates. A "coming soon" feature even allows businesses to extend ChatGPT's knowledge using their own data sources.
Admin Tools: The Enterprise edition comes with an arsenal of administrative tools, such as Single Sign-On (SSO), domain verification, and an analytics dashboard, making large-scale deployment much more feasible.
Advanced Data Analysis: This is where ChatGPT Enterprise really shines. Its data analysis capabilities enable rapid decision-making, catering to both technical and non-technical teams within an organization.

The Battle against Open Source

While ChatGPT Enterprise boasts a range of impressive features, it is in direct competition with open-source models like Llama 2 and Llama 2 Code. The speed with which OpenAI has moved to release this enterprise version reflects their competitive strategy against these models. Another interesting aspect of this launch is its timing. Recently, Microsoft pulled down its AzureChatGPT GitHub repository, which was an open-source frontend for the OpenAI API. It raises questions about the correlation between these two events.

What took so long?

While leading organizations like Klarna, Canva, and Asana have already reported positive impacts from using ChatGPT Enterprise, there's a notable backdrop of privacy concerns that have led several companies to prohibit the use of the earlier consumer version within their corporate environments. These reservations primarily centered around data security and privacy, crucial elements for any organization. It's somewhat surprising that an enterprise-grade solution addressing these very issues wasn't rolled out sooner.

ChatGPT Plus Pro?

While the enterprise version of ChatGPT certainly meets specific business needs, there is also a growing demand for a more advanced consumer variant. Many individual users, particularly those engaged in programming or long-form content creation, would benefit from expanded context lengths and are willing to pay a premium for such capabilities. API costs for using GPT-4 can escalate quickly for tasks like coding, so making a more robust consumer product could be lucrative. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has openly discussed the company's focus on making GPT-4 more efficient, and achieving this efficiency is likely a prerequisite for rolling out a more advanced consumer-facing model
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