BerriAI/litellm - GitHub vs ChatGPT Plugins

LiteLLM offers a universal solution for integrating various large language model (LLM) APIs into your applications by using a consistent OpenAI format. This tool allows seamless access to multiple providers such as Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Ollama, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, and Replicate, among others, without the need for adapting to each provider's specific API style. LiteLLM's features include input translation to different providers’ endpoints, consistent output formats, common exception mapping, and load balancing for high-volume requests. It supports over 100 LLM APIs, making it an indispensable tool for developers looking to leverage AI language models across different cloud platforms, all with the ease of OpenAI-style API calls.

OpenAI follows an iterative deployment philosophy, and as part of this approach, it is gradually releasing plugins for ChatGPT. The purpose of this gradual release is to study the real-world use of the plugins, assess their impact, and identify any safety and alignment challenges that may arise. Getting these aspects right is essential for OpenAI to achieve its mission.

Since the launch of ChatGPT, users have expressed interest in having access to plugins, and many developers are experimenting with similar ideas. OpenAI is initially rolling out plugins to a small set of users and plans to gradually increase access as it learns more. After an alpha period, API users who want to integrate plugins into their products will also have access. OpenAI is excited to build a community that will help shape the future of the human-AI interaction paradigm.

Developers who have been invited off the waitlist can use OpenAI's documentation to build a plugin for ChatGPT. Once the plugin is created, it is listed in the prompt shown to the language model, along with documentation that instructs the model on how to use each one. The first set of plugins has been created by Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, KAYAK, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram, and Zapier.