LONDON: OpenAI is launching a new, more expensive subscription tier for people to access its most powerful AI model series, which it first previewed in September.
The AI giant said its new ChatGPT Pro subscription would cost 200 dollars (£157) a month, but would give users “unlimited” access to its OpenAI o1 model, which is designed to spend more time thinking and reasoning before answering queries, enabling it to help solve more complex tasks or problems.
OpenAI said the new subscription would also include access to a range of its other tools, most notably an even more powerful version of o1 called o1 pro mode, which the tech firm said “used more compute to think harder and provide even better answers to the hardest problems”. As part of the announcement, it was confirmed that o1 had now also moved out of preview, and that the new subscription would also include access to ChatGPT’s existing models and its voice mode.
“As AI becomes more advanced, it will solve increasingly complex and critical problems. It also takes significantly more compute to power these capabilities,” the company said in a blog post.
“Today, we’re adding ChatGPT Pro, a 200 dollar monthly plan that enables scaled access to the best of OpenAI’s models and tools. “This plan includes unlimited access to our smartest model, OpenAI o1, as well as to o1-mini, GPT-4o, 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.”