ChatGPT has introduced its Pro subscription plan, which costs $200 a month

Sam Altman and the other members of this organization kicked off an event entitled “12 Days of OpenAI” just last Thursday, December 13, with a live stream to showcase a fully functional version of the 01 reasoning model and a new subscription tier termed ChatGPT Pro. You just have to pay this exorbitantly priced $200 for a month to acquire unlimited access to such newest features and capabilities.

ChatGPT Pro subscription plan

This is the o1 model, codenamed Project Strawberry, and was first launched as a sneak preview this September alongside o1-mini – a lighter-weight version – to ChatGPT-Plus subscribers. o1, being a reasoning model, is dissimilar from any other mainstream LLMs in that it has the capability to fact-check itself before returning a generated response to the user.

It causes such models to hallucinate answers less often and proves little expense in terms of a longer inference period and poorer speed of response. However, it can “deduce” answers for such complex queries faster than humans can in the technical domains of science, coding, and mathematics. According to internal tests of OpenAI, the new version of o1 brings down “major errors” on “difficult real-world questions” from its preview by 34%.

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Beginning today, the new model has all ChatGPT Plus and Team users on board through the model selection tool in the chatGPT website. Next week, it will be opened to Enterprise and Edu subscribers. Although you cannot currently upload files or surf the internet with the new o1, OpenAI states they will enable this and more features in the coming months.

ChatGPT Pro subscription

The company also has launched its newly launched subscription period, ChatGPT Pro, which they set at $200 per month. It will grant its users unlimited access to all OpenAI models, including the GPT-4o, the full version of o1, and Advanced Voice Mode. Pro subscribers will also get exclusive access to o1 Pro mode, which “uses more compute for the best answers to the hardest questions,” in company parlance.

According to OpenAI, “In evaluations from external expert testers, o1 pro mode yields responses that are more consistently accurate and comprehensive, particularly in areas such as data science, programming, and case law analysis.”

O1 pro mode, compared with both o1 and o1-preview, performed well on challenging machine learning benchmarks in terms of math, science, and coding both quantitatively and qualitatively. Specifically, we saw a reduction of 75 percent in errors in easier coding competition problems that are more representative of typical programming queries.

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Now, in recent months, OpenAI has been under quite a lot of pressure to tighten its purse strings with regard to the rate at which it was burning cash-it was previously estimated to be spending a whopping $700,000 day for operational costs on ChatGPT.

The company quite recently pitched the idea of incorporating advertisements into its chat results for revenues generation and had even suggested that Enterprise will be charged in excess of $2,000 every month for an elite subscription tier.

And as reported in The New York Times, OpenAI could jack these rates at Plus tier subscriptions to as high as $44 monthly by 2029. Whether users would take to using such sums to pay for a product that continues to be so often, “confidently incorrect” in its responses, remains to be seen.