SambaNova Systems, a Palo Alto–based AI startup, announced a new language service model with a familiar description: GPT, which stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, and has no links to OpenAI's GPT series of language models. SambaNova markets their GPT as an everyman's alternative to OpenAI's GPT-3, writing in the press release that it will allow companies "to be up and running with a customized language model in as fast as one month as opposed to nine months or a year." What it's all about: You may have heard of SaaS (Software as a Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), but SambaNova Systems offers DaaS: Dataflow-as-a-Service. The aim is to sell a suite of AI tools, including natural language processing ones, for startups to adopt quickly and seamlessly. GPT is the latest tool in its box: a model that can both produce and process natural language. It's built for enterprise use cases, according to the company.