OpenAI has taken a significant step in monetizing its groundbreaking AI chatbot, ChatGPT, with the introduction of a paid professional version. The move comes as no surprise given the overwhelming popularity and demand for the platform, which has revolutionized the way we interact with AI. ChatGPT Professional promises enhanced features and improved performance, marking a new era for the AI landscape and potentially reshaping the future of the tech industry.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI has released a paid version of its popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. Known as ‘ChatGPT Professional’, it is now available for $42 per month. The research lab announced its plans to monetize ChatGPT a week ago.
The upgraded yet “experimental” version of ChatGPT claims to be available during high demand, with no blackout windows, priority access to new features, a faster response rate, no throttling and increased API request limits. The exact features and pricing of the ChatGPT Professional plan can vary depending on the specific needs of the user and the agreements made with OpenAI. It is not publicly accessible as it is based on selection, and the company posted a waitlist link on its Discord server for the same.
Since its release last November, the LLM-based ChatGPT has garnered widespread popularity for generating texts and ideas from scratch, including explaining complex concepts, writing code, crafting poems, and so on.
In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the team is working on launching a video model soon, though he emphasized that he “wouldn’t want to make a competent prediction about when”.
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