he biggest announcement from last week’s OpenAI DevDay (and there were a LOT of announcements) was GPTs. Users of ChatGPT Plus can now create their own, custom GPT chat bots that other Plus subscribers can then talk to.

My initial impression of GPTs was that they’re not much more than ChatGPT in a trench coat—a fancy wrapper for standard GPT-4 with some pre-baked prompts.

Now that I’ve spent more time with them I’m beginning to see glimpses of something more than that. The combination of features they provide can add up to some very interesting results.

As with pretty much everything coming out of these modern AI companies, the documentation is thin. Here’s what I’ve figured out so far.