OpenAI rolls out new subscription tier for ChatGPT

OpenAI on Thursday launched a new subscription tier for its popular generative artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, which can be used in engineering fields and for research.

ChatGPT Pro, the new version of ChatGPT, is priced at $200 per month, expanding the AI firm's existing offerings that included ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise.

The introduction of ChatGPT Pro reflects OpenAI's ambition to further commercialise its technology, which had kicked off the AI boom, Reuters reported.

Additionally, the company said that ChatGPT Pro will allow access to the most advanced OpenAI tools, including unlimited access to its new reasoning model o1, o1 mini, GPT-4o and advanced voice.

Taking to X to announce the launch of the new version, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said: "we just launched two things: o1, the smartest model in the world. smarter, faster, and more features (eg multimodality) than o1-preview. live in chatgpt now, coming to api soon.

"chatgpt pro. $200/month. unlimited usage and even-smarter mode for using o1. more benefits to come!"

The o1 pro mode is a version which uses additional computing power to solve more complex queries.

OpenAI said the o1 pro mode performs better on machine learning benchmarks across math, science and coding compared with the o1 and o1-preview versions.