ChatGPT Plus: the subscription is there, what does it entitle you to?

OpenAI is implementing a paid version of ChatGPT which will give some advantages to its subscribers.

ChatGPT is, since its public availability, free for those who want to try it. This decision allowed OpenAI to accumulate user feedback in order to improve the machine, but it is extremely expensive for the company. That’s why she set up a paid subscription for her chatbot.

An expensive chatbot

” We’re going to have to monetize it somehow at some point, the computational costs are exorbitant. This is what OpenAI boss Sam Altman replied on December 5 on Twitter to a user who asked him if ChatGPT was going to be forever free.

If he did not give figures to illustrate this problem, others took care of it for him. Thus, the professor of machine learning at the University of Maryland Tom Goldstein estimated at the same time the costs of using AI at around 100,000 dollars per day, or nearly 3 million dollars per month.

What justify a paid subscription which would bring back a little money in the coffers of the company. We had been hearing about this initiative for several weeks, and now it is happening today.

$20 and some perks

Called ChatGPT Plus, this subscription will cost $20 per month. Currently available in the United States, it will allow access to the chatbot at any time, even during traffic peaks during which the machine cannot be found by everyone. The answers produced by the artificial intelligence will also be faster, and the subscriber will be entitled in priority to the new options and updates which will be revealed over time.

This subscription will be open to other regions of the world in the medium term. OpenAI could thanks to it generate the income it lacks to continue to grow and not be entirely dependent on the envelopes granted by Microsoft. Even if the Redmond giant should be generous to the firm in the coming years.

Source : Engadget