ChatGPT creator OpenAI launches new pilot subscription plan for chatbot

ChatGPT took the internet by storm last year, as the dialogue-based AI chatbot crossed a million users just five days after its launch. ChatGPT creator OpenAI has announced on Wednesday it is launching ChatGPT Plus, a $20 per month pilot subscription plan for its popular AI-powered chatbot.

In January, UBS reported that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a report by the company. According to a Wednesday note from the UBS, analysts wrote in the note:

According to data from Similar Web, more than 13 million unique visitors used ChatGPT per day in January, more than double the levels the company had back in December 2022, according to the report.

The open AI co-founder Sam Altman said that ChatGPT crossed one million users just five days after its launch. It took Netflix 3.5 years, Facebook 10 months, Spotify 5 months and Instagram 2.5 months to reach the one million users mark. On January 23 Microsoft announced a new multi-billion dollar investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI following the $1 billion investment the software giant made in 2019. Microsoft didn't give a specific dollar amount. Microsoft was in talks to invest $10 billion in exchange for a 49% stake in the company, as we reported earlier in January.

Since its launch, ChatGPT has impressed many experts with its writing ability, proficiency in handling complex tasks, and ease of use. Before the announcement, ChatGPT was free to use, but Altman said the company will charge people to use the chatbot that many people said could one day replace humans.

The history of OpenAI and the people behind the Company is the story of the people behind the company.

Open AI is a research institute founded in late 2015 by Elon Musk and Sam Altman and 20 others, including Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever and Wojciech Zaremba. In 2018, Musk stepped down from OpenAI's board of directors to avoid future conflicts of interest with Tesla's self-driving car research. Both Musk and Altman said they were motivated to start OpenAI because of concerns about existential risk from artificial general intelligence.

The company is focused on developing and promoting friendly artificial intelligence with the goal of advancing and ensuring the beneficial use of AI in society. The mission statement of OpenAI is to make sure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company aims to make its patents and research open to the public, by sharing their research with other institutions and researchers.

ChatGPT is currently free to use. Since ChatGPT costs $3 million per day to run, the question is: How is OpenAI going to be less profitable? When asked if ChatGPT will be free forever, Altman said that the company will have to monetize it some way, and the compute costs are eye-watering.