Artificial Intelligence company OpenAl, has unveiled ChatGPT Pro, a premium subscription tier offering unlimited access to its most advanced artificial intelligence features.
As AI becomes more advanced, OpenAI has taken it significantly to enhance its product with more enhanced capabilities. The ChatGPT Pro tier is priced at $200 (N150,000) per month and targets users who require enhanced Al capabilities. The model introduces significant upgrades designed to perform complex reasoning tasks with human-like precision. OpenAl highlighted that the Pro tier incorporates an expanded version of its cutting-edge reasoning model, referred to as o1.
Announcing the launch of ChatGPTPro, OpenAI wrote on its website,
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“Today, we’re adding ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan that enables scaled access to the best of OpenAl’s models and tools. This plan includes unlimited access to our smartest model, OpenAl o1, as well as to o1-mini, GPT-40, and Advanced Voice. It also includes o1 pro mode, a version of o1 that uses more compute to think harder and provide even better answers to the hardest problems. In the future, we expect to add more powerful, compute intensive productivity features to this plan.”
The ChatGPT Pro provides a way for researchers, engineers, and other individuals who use research-grade intelligence daily to accelerate their productivity and be at the cutting edge of advancements in AI. Furthermore, ChatGPT Pro provides access to a version of OpenAI’s most intelligent model that thinks longer for the most reliable responses. In evaluations from external expert testers, o1 pro mode produces more reliably accurate and comprehensive responses, especially in areas like data science, programming, and case law analysis. Compared to both o1 and o1-preview, o1 pro mode performs better on challenging ML benchmarks across math, science, and coding.
The launch of OpenAI ChatGPT Pro builds on the success of OpenAl’s existing ChatGPT Plus subscription, launched in 2023, which is pegged at $20 (N15,000) per month. The ChatGPT plus enabled users’ General access to ChatGPT even during peak times, faster response times and priority access to new features and improvements.
As part of OpenAI ChatGPT Pro is the OpenAI o1 which is out in preview on ChatGPT. The newly upgraded model now supports image uploads, allowing it to apply reasoning to visuals for more detailed & useful responses. Notably, OpenAI o1 is more concise in its thinking, resulting in faster response times than o1-preview.
Testing shows that o1 outperforms o1-preview, reducing major errors on difficult real-world questions by 34%. The updated OpenAI o1 system card builds on prior safety work, detailing robustness evals, red teaming insights, and safety improvements using Instruction Hierarchy. It maintains a “medium” risk rating based on testing with an expanded suite of evaluations, reflecting it is safe to deploy. OpenAI o1 is fully rolled out to 100% of ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users.
OpenAI’s code-name “Strawberry” is ready to be picked — for $200 a month. The artificial intelligence startup’s “reasoning” model is out of preview mode, with the full version of o1 now part of a top-tier $200 monthly plan called ChatGPT Pro. The subscription, aimed at researchers and engineers, includes an exclusive “o1 pro mode” which “uses more compute to think harder and provide even better answers to the hardest problems,” along with unlimited access to o1, GPT-4o and Advanced Voice. Some ChatGPT Plus users are balking at Pro’s price point, since it’s 10 times higher than Plus.
The release of ChatGPT Pro comes as OpenAl seeks to secure additional funding amid intense competition in the Al industry. Companies like Google and Anthropic are also racing to develop advanced Al systems capable of performing complex reasoning tasks. These enhanced reasoning capabilities aim to improve the performance of Al models, addressing challenges faced by developers in achieving consistent advancements. OpenAl emphasized that its Pro tier offers value for customers and businesses willing to invest in premium Al software to access state-of-the-art technology.
As the demand for sophisticated Al systems grows, OpenAl’s efforts to combine innovation with monetization represent a critical strategy in maintaining its leadership within the evolving artificial intelligence landscape. The company has announced plans to add more capabilities to Pro over time, to unlock more compute-intensive tasks.