The ChatGPT subscription fee may increase to $2000 in the future

OpenAI is considering a significant increase in the subscription fee for its artificial intelligence chatbot. A ChatGPT subscription currently costs $20 per month, but apparently that figure could rise to $2,000 for future models. It’s not yet clear whether the fee will be charged monthly or annually, or whether it will represent a whole new level of access to next-gen AI capabilities. OpenAI’s decision may also be aimed at stabilizing the company’s finances amid rumors of economic trouble.

According to The Information, OpenAI is considering a fee of up to $2,000 for access to its next advanced artificial intelligence models. The duration of the subscription is unspecified, but it can be monthly or yearly. Regardless, such a fee is a huge jump from the current $20 for a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which offers benefits such as priority access, custom AI assistants, image generation with DALL-E 3, and other advanced features.

The reason for the increase in the price of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence service

The subscription fee increase may be related to OpenAI’s development of new and more powerful artificial intelligence models designed to process complex reasoning tasks that are beyond the reach of current language models. One of these models has the code name “Strawberry”; This model is being developed with the aim of handling multi-stage problems such as complex mathematical equations that traditionally require human-level knowledge.

To achieve this goal, OpenAI plans to use new post-training techniques, enabling AI models to improve themselves based on human feedback and real-world data. In addition, Strawberry helps generate high-quality data for a more advanced language model, called Orion. The strawberry model could be released as early as this fall.

The development of advanced artificial intelligence models is very expensive. ChatGPT Premium was projected to generate around $2 billion in annual revenue, but that may not even cover the astronomical computing costs required to develop and maintain these systems. Current estimates suggest that OpenAI spends $700,000 per day just to run ChatGPT. Therefore, increasing the monthly subscription price seems reasonable, but the amount of 2000 dollars will probably be beyond the reach of ordinary users, and maybe only large companies can afford this amount of money.