ChatGPT is completely free to use, but that doesn’t mean OpenAI isn’t also interested in making money.
ChatGPT Plus is a subscription model that gives you access to a completely different service based on GPT-4, with faster speeds and more reliable access.
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What is ChatGPT Plus?
Details about ChatGPT Plus have been trickling out from insiders for weeks, but the official news finally broke on February 1, 2023 via a blog post from OpenAI, the company behind the popular text-generating AI.
“We launched ChatGPT as a research review so we could learn more about the system’s strengths and weaknesses and collect user feedback to help us improve its limitations,” the blog post said. “Since then, millions of people have given us feedback, we’ve made several important updates, and we’ve seen users find value in a range of professional use cases, including drafting and editing content, brainstorming ideas, helping with programming and learning new topics.”
Like the standard version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Plus is an AI chatbot and offers a highly accurate machine learning assistant that can conduct “chats” in natural language. This is the latest version of the chatbot currently available.
How much does it cost?
ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month, which is much less than it was rumored to cost. Of course, the free version of ChatGPT remains in effect, so payment will not be a condition for further use of the service.
However, we will have to see how long OpenAI will maintain this price. Some reports indicate that it could cost as much as $700,000 per day to operate, but again, we don’t know how many subscribers ChatGPT Plus currently has.
What does ChatGPT Plus include?
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When ChatGPT was launched, it was described as providing access to three specific features:
- General access to ChatGPT, even during peak hours
- Faster response time
- Priority access to new features and improvements
Access to ChatGPT during peak hours is the most obvious big advantage of paying for ChatGPT Plus. Since some people have to wait hours to get in, that alone should ensure the popularity of the subscription model. The idea of getting first access to new features and improvements is also interesting, even if what those new features will be remains a secret.
It’s more than just jumping to the front of the line, though. ChatGPT Plus officially supports GPT-4, which is the latest Large Language Model (LLM), greatly expanding what standard ChatGPT, which uses GPT-3.5, can do. According to OpenAI, GPT-4 provides 40% more factual answers and is a much stronger collaborative tool for creative tasks. In many ways we are still discovering how much more powerful GPT-4 is than GPT-3.5, but some believe it even hints at the first sparks of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).
Other major features added through GPT-4 are the ability to receive visual input instead of just text, much longer text input and output, and access to data collected from the Internet before 2022. Specifically, GPT-4 has a whopping 25,000-word limit compared to ChatGPT’s 3,000- And.
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If you’re interested in trying it out, you can simply check it out and cancel your account later if it’s no longer needed.
Why does OpenAI want you to pay?
ChatGPT has high running costs – for hosting, maintenance, hardware upgrades, updates, satisfying its investors, etc. – while its own popularity has led to an immediate need to improve its availability and speed for a larger user base. Some estimate daily running costs at $100,000 or up to $3 million per month! The premium subscription should help cover server upgrades.
It’s safe to assume that the premium tier will allow OpenAI to control bandwidth issues, especially during peak times of the day.
Can I subscribe to ChatGPT Plus now?
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That. ChatGPT Plus was initially launched in the Early Access phase, which was by invitation only via a waiting list. But now you can upgrade your account to ChatGPT Plus by simply clicking “Upgrade to Plus” at the bottom of the sidebar.
Alternatively, you can check out what GPT-4 has to offer using Bing Chat, which also uses GPT-4 as the basis for its chats.
The future of ChatGPT Plus
OpenAI is already working on the next versions of its LLM — most notably GPT-4.5. We don’t know much about this updated model, other than that it will build on the foundation laid by GPT-4. OpenAI has suggested in the past that GPT-4.5 could be finished with training and ready to go by September or October of this year.
It seems possible that GPT-4.5 will be released for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, but we don’t yet know how the company plans to release new versions of its chatbot.
At one point, GPT-5 was rumored to be in the works, but OpenAI now says it’s no longer on the cards.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn