OpenAI’s $200 monthly ChatGPT Pro subscription includes
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has launched ChatGPT pro, a $200 subscription for its flagship Chatbot, earlier today. This release is the first of many expected during the next 12 days, as the San Francisco startup has scheduled a slew of announcements to roll out starting today.Everything from OpenAI’s $20 monthly subscription is included at this price level as well as significantly more access to the GPT-4o and o1 artificial intelligence models. With a ChatGPT Pro subscription–which will cost $2,400 for a full year–users can also use an exclusive model from OpenAI called o1 pro mode that wields more computing power to process answers.
“Power users of ChatGPT, at this point, they really use it a lot, and they want more compute than $20 can buy,” said CEO Sam Altman during the video broadcast announcing the new premium tier. This subscription may shock some consumers. However, it is aimed at users who want almost unlimited access to ChatGPT and researchers who might be interested in using ChatGPT to perform more intensive, complex tasks. ChatGPT Plus was the first subscription plan for OpenAI’s consumer chatbot. It launched in February last year at a price of $20 per month. This is still the current price. Users can unlock all of ChatGPT’s new features, including generative AI models. OpenAI does not limit the rate of these subscribers as much as it does free users. The subscription level determines how many ChatGPT requests a user can make in a given day or how much time they can spend chatting with ChatGPT’s best voice interface. Jason Wei, a research scientist at OpenAI, said that the o1 mode is best for solving hard math, science or programming problems. WIRED has not yet tried a ChatGPT Pro subscription out firsthand to see how it handles these types of requests, though I look forward to testing out the tool as part of helping readers better understand its strengths and limitations, similar to our past work on ChatGPT Plus, as well as its specific features, like Advanced Voice Mode and AI web browsing.
Even though subscribers to ChatGPT Pro receive what OpenAI calls “unlimited access” to the o1 model, GPT-4o model, and Advanced Voice Mode feature, the startup is clear its terms of use still apply. Accounts that are shared between several people, or those that use the Pro plan for their own services may be banned. OpenAI offers a $200 refund to users who are not satisfied with the service within two weeks. The startup claims that the fully released o1 version answers questions faster, accepts images as inputs and makes fewer mistakes. In the future, the startup will add file upload and web browsing features to ChatGPT’s default o1 settings. The Verge reports that OpenAI’s highly anticipated generative AI model, Sora, may be included in these year-end releases. These upcoming announcements may also give us more insight into Altman’s thinking on AI agents, online tools that could perform tasks for you, and how the company will focus in 2025.
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