Due to its popularity, the ChatGPT AI text generator has often been “at full capacity” recently, which means it’s frustrating to wait a long time.
To solve the problem, ChatGPT officially announced a subscription model for those who need faster speeds, reliable access, and priority for new features. ChatGPT Plus has been rumored for months, but some of the details surrounding it have finally been made official.
What is ChatGPT Plus?
Details about ChatGPT Plus have been emerging from insiders for weeks, but the official news broke on February 1 via a blog post from OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI text generation.
“We launched ChatGPT as a research preview so we could learn more about the system’s strengths and weaknesses, and gather user feedback to help us improve its boundaries,” the blog post says. “Since then, millions of people have given us feedback, we’ve made several important updates, and users are finding value in a range of professional use cases including content drafting and editing, ideas, programming help, and new learning. topics.”
Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) has become an AI (and investment) treasure. It is a complex and highly accurate machine learning assistant that can carry out a natural language “conversation”. The latest iteration of its creator, OpenAI (co-founded by Elon Musk), was trained on massive amounts of data collected from the internet before 2022.
But as people started hitting “full capacity” ads trying to access it, it became clear that OpenAI needed a solution for those willing to pay for it.
How much does it cost?
According to the blog post, ChatGPT Plus will cost $20 per month. That’s despite rumors that it would cost much more. Of course, the free version of ChatGPT is still in place, so payment will not be necessary to use the service going forward.
What does ChatGPT Plus include?
According to the blog post, ChatGPT Plus will offer three specific features:
- General access to ChatGPT, even during peak times
- Faster response times
- Priority access to new features and improvements
Having access to ChatGPT during peak payment times for ChatGPT Plus is clearly a huge plus. And the fact that some people have to wait hours to get in, that alone should ensure that the subscription model is popular. It’s also interesting to get first access to new features and improvements, even if what those new features will be is still a mystery.
We know that ChatGPT-4, which claims to be a huge improvement over the previous generation, is due to launch sometime in 2023. OpenAI may reserve the improved language model for paid users only.
Why does OpenAI want you to pay up?
ChatGPT has high running costs – for hosting, maintaining, upgrading, updating hardware, satisfying its investor, etc. – and there is an immediate need to improve its accessibility and speed to a larger user base due to its own popularity. Some peg daily running costs at $100,000, or up to $3 million per month! The premium subscription should help cover the server upgrade.
It is safe to assume that a premium tier will allow OpenAI to control bandwidth issues, especially during peak times of the day.
Can I subscribe to ChatGPT Plus now?
No, not yet. ChatGPT Plus is currently in early access, which means it’s invite-only for a select group of users on its waiting list.
That fact could mean we got an official announcement that ChatGPT Plus will be widely available soon, but OpenAI hasn’t provided a timetable for when that will happen.
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