Stack Overflow and OpenAI announce collaboration

OpenAI, creator of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, and developer platform Stack Overflow have announced a collaboration. This partnership opens up new prospects for improving artificial intelligence models and expanding ChatGPT's technical knowledge base.

Partnership with OpenAI

As part of the agreement, OpenAI will have access to the Stack Overflow API. This will allow the company to use the platform's vast knowledge archive to improve the performance of its AI models. In addition, OpenAI will receive feedback from the Stack Overflow developer community, which will help further develop and optimize artificial intelligence algorithms.

OpenAI will also add Stack Overflow attribution to ChatGPT. Thanks to this, chatbot users will be able to get more relevant information from the Stack Overflow knowledge base for queries related to programming and technology.

“Our strong partnership with Stack Overflow will help us improve the user and developer experience on both of our platforms.”

Brad Lightcup, CEO of OpenAI

In turn, Stack Overflow plans to leverage OpenAI's advanced language models to develop its generative Overflow AI application. In particular, the platform intends to introduce AI-based search. In addition, OpenAI's partnership with Stack Overflow will allow Stack Overflow to continue to reinvest in community-driven features. 

“Through this industry-leading partnership with OpenAI, we aim to redefine the developer experience by increasing efficiency and collaboration through the power of community, best-in-class data and artificial intelligence capabilities.”

Prashant Chandrasekhar, CEO of Stack Overflow

A set of integrations between OpenAI and Stack Overflow will be available in the first half of 2024. However, it has not yet been specified which features will be implemented first.

Other Stack Overflow Partnerships

Through its public and private platforms, Stack Overflow enables developer communities to find the information, answers, and learning opportunities they need when they need it. In February, Stack Overflow entered into a similar agreement with Google. Thanks to it, users of Gemini for Google Cloud will be able to receive code hints directly from Stack Overflow.