Hugging Face Launches OpenAI GPT Rival for Custom AI Assistants

Hugging Face launched customizable Chat Assistants as a free, open-source alternative to OpenAI's paid GPT store for creating customized AI chatbots.

Summary

• Hugging Face announced customizable Chat Assistants to create own AI chatbots using open source models like Mistral's Mixstral and Meta's Llama 2.
• It is a free alternative to OpenAI's paid GPT store for custom AI assistants requiring $20/month subscription.
• The assistants aggregator page visually resembles GPT store with baseball card style boxes to display custom Assistants.
• Users can choose open source models, customize capabilities as per needs to create Chat Assistants.
• GPTs outperform currently by supporting web search, retrieval augmented generation, and logo generation through DALL-E 3.
• The move allows more openness and democratization in building customized AI solutions.
• It promotes free access and prevents vendor lock-ins via subscriptions for generative AI.