Is OpenAI's GPT-3 API Beta Pricing Too Rich for Researchers?

Few in the natural language processing (NLP) community expected the world's most powerful large language model to come cheap, but some are worried the hefty price tag could put it out of reach of startups. OpenAI's 175 billion parameter language model GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) turned heads in the NLP community when it was released in June, and now it's back in the spotlight. A Reddit post this week by independent writer and researcher Gwern Branwen detailed the pricing plan OpenAI has provided to GPT-3 Beta API users. The scheme, which goes into effect on October 1, has already raised as many questions as it has answered. According to reports, OpenAI announced the pricing scheme for GPT-3's API usage from October. The plan has four tiers: Explore, Create, Build, Scale.