OpenAI wants $200 a month for its most advanced features

OpenAI kicked off its “12 Days of OpenAI” sequence of livestreams with the announcement of a brand new, costlier tier for its flagship chatbot. Beginning immediately, ChatGPT customers will pay $200 monthly for ChatGPT Pro. Included within the bundle is limitless entry to the corporate’s newest mannequin, o1, which following a limited preview earlier in the year, is now sooner and 34 p.c much less more likely to produce a serious error when answering troublesome real-world questions.

ChatGPT Professional additionally comes with entry to GPT-4o, o1-mini and the corporate’s Superior Voice mode, however the purpose most energy customers are more likely to splurge is the addition of an o1 “professional mode” that offers the chatbot further compute energy to purpose by probably the most complicated issues. “In evaluations from exterior knowledgeable testers, o1 professional mode produces extra reliably correct and complete responses, particularly in areas like information science, programming, and case legislation evaluation,” OpenAI says of the characteristic.

Sooner or later, OpenAI says it is going to add extra “highly effective, compute-intensive productiveness options” to ChatGPT Professional, with a few of these enhancements arriving as early as later this week and into subsequent week as the corporate continues to point out off what it’s been engaged on during the last 11 months. Extra broadly, ChatGPT customers can anticipate assist for internet shopping and file uploads to reach sooner or later, although through the firm’s livestream, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman didn’t definitively say when these options would arrive.

For the remainder of us, OpenAI will proceed to supply its current ChatGPT Professional subscription, which is able to proceed to price $20 monthly and embrace early entry to new options.