Go back to the article and search for "If you're interested in trying it out", there's a link that allows you to signup for the waiting list.

Anecdotally, I signed up around last June (06/2020), and am still waiting to hear back..

(I work at OpenAI.)

We've been ramping up our invites from the waitlist — our Slack community has over 18,000 members — but we still are only a small fraction of way through. We've been really overwhelmed with the demand and have been scaling our team and processes to be able to meet it.

We can also often accelerate invites for people who do have a specific application they'd like to build. Please feel free to email me ([email protected]) and I may be able to help. (As a caveat, I get about a hundred emails a week, so I can't reply to all of them — but know that I will do my best.)

Thank you for your open and honest response. I've been on the waiting list for a few months myself and it's great to hear that Open AI is ramping up to meet the enormous demand for GPT-3.

Can you explain why this is not fully open to paying customers?

AFAIK the list never moves and you basically have to know someone at openAI.

Same.

Same. :|

Also in the "signed up for waitlist but never heard back". I signed up a couple of times because I thought I might have done it from an address that got filtered out at first.

Got it. Do you have to pay for it to use it

OpenAI is a paid API. The SQL pad we (https://seekwell.io/) offer has a free tier with paid premium features.

Got it thanks for answering