OpenAI has hinted that it may soon release a premium, paid version of the well-known chatbot, ChatGPT, for business users.
ChatGPT is a conversational dialogue model that has been trained by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize and respond to natural human language.
A free service utilizing the AI chatbot was made available in November 2022. According to sources, OpenAI is reportedly already examining several revenue models for ChatGPT services.
OpenAI has developed a Google Form that serves as a waiting list for the service for interested people. As an experimental program, OpenAI states that they do not currently have any plans to make paid professional access publicly available.
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How do OpenAI plans work?
The waitlist form, intended for business usage, already describes the advantages consumers have access to with the premium edition. This includes unlimited texts, no throttling, and no blackout (unavailability).
Additionally, according to OpenAI, individuals chosen will be required to pilot ChatGPT Professional and set up a payment procedure after completing the waitlist form. There are a few inquiries regarding how much consumers are prepared to pay for the ChatGPT Professional in the Google form.
One question asks, “At what price (per month) would you consider ChatGPT to be so expensive that you would not consider buying it?” Another question is, at what monthly price would you consider ChatGPT a bargain?
The financial growth of OpenAI
The mission of OpenAI, a non-profit organization that was founded in 2015, has been to “guarantee that artificial general intelligence (AGI), which exceeds humans at the majority of economically productive tasks, benefits all of humanity.”
The AI startup declared in March 2019 that it was establishing OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” business, to enable it to boost its investments in talent and computers while including checks and balances and achieving its objective.
Microsoft partnered with OpenAI a few months later, investing $1 billion. Microsoft may invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the parent firm of ChatGPT, to boost its worth to $29 billion.
Over 1 million people utilize ChatGPT. However, it is unclear if it can continue as a free service. Sama Altman, the CEO, replied to a Twitter user on December 5th that the computing cost is eye-watering.