From the course: OpenAI API for Python Developers

Getting started with OpenAI: Create an account

From the course: OpenAI API for Python Developers

Getting started with OpenAI: Create an account

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- [Instructor] Since November, 2022, OpenAI provides access to a set of language models with different capacities and usage. And you will see that the OpenAI documentations for developers is very well designed. With an overview to get started quick with the basics and understand how to integrate an intelligence layer into your web projects. And also multiple examples for different use cases, to understand how to interact with the APIs and the generative models. On top of that, you have access to an API reference with guides and instructions for every endpoint available, for example, for the Chat Completion API, also the audio endpoints to convert audio to text, and also embeddings, a nice example to create vector-based data to train language models with custom data. So in order to be able to access the endpoints, you're going to need to have an account with OpenAI. So we're going to go to sign up. To create an account, it's a very easy process. You can create and sign up with an email or with a Google account, which I find much more convenient. You also have the options to sign up with a Microsoft or an Apple account if you have one. So I'm going to go ahead and continue with Google, you just need to follow the steps on the screen. Once you are signed up, you can then go to usage and you're going to see that for every new account you're going to be granted with a $5 credit, which is plenty enough for you to get started and to get familiar with the APIs and the language models. And you see that for my account, I have almost used up my $5 credit. So once this is expired, I'm going to need to provide with my payment details right here on the billing once my free trial is finished. And you can always check out and control your usage, see how much you use and spent on a daily basis. So that's it, so once you are signed up, we're ready to continue and to discover more about the OpenAI platform.

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