OpenAI launches a brand new $200 month-to-month subscription and an up to date mannequin

OpenAI is creating a brand new, costlier tier for its flagship chatbot ChatGPT, and is bringing its “reasoning” mannequin collection out of preview with an replace.

The firm is releasing the total model of its o1 mannequin (changing o1-preview), which was initially launched as a restricted preview in September (code-named ‘Strawberry’). The new mannequin will probably be out there for ChatGPT Plus and Team customers at the moment, whereas Enterprise and Edu customers can have entry to it beginning subsequent week.

The firm can also be introducing ChatGPT Pro, a brand new $200 month-to-month subscription tier that features limitless entry to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. It additionally features a model of o1, unique to Pro customers, that makes use of extra compute to supply the absolute best reply to the toughest issues (known as o1 professional mode). The firm will proceed to supply a Plus tier for $20 a month that features early entry to new options, entry to all the corporate’s fashions (besides the extra highly effective o1 model), and extra.

The Verge beforehand reported on the startup’s plans to kick off a “shipmas” interval of recent options, merchandise, and demos for 12 days, with bulletins that’ll embrace OpenAI’s long-awaited text-to-video AI device Sora and a brand new mannequin.

The firm stated that in comparison with o1-preview, customers can anticipate a sooner, extra highly effective, and extra correct mannequin that’s higher at coding and math. It may also present “reasoning” responses to photographs. And OpenAI guarantees it’s been skilled to be extra concise, which ought to lead to sooner response instances than o1-preview.

OpenAI plans so as to add assist for net shopping, file uploads, and extra in ChatGPT — although there’s no timeline for these modifications.

It additionally introduced a ChatGPT Pro Grant Program that awards 10 grants of ChatGPT Pro to medical researchers at main establishments, with plans for extra grants throughout numerous disciplines.