OpenAI Broadcasts New $200 Per Month ChatGPT Professional Subscription

Computing finally comes all the way down to 1s and 0s. For instance: if you happen to tack an additional 0 onto the $20 price ticket for ChatGPT Plus, you’ll have the price of ChatGPT Pro—the latest premium tier of OpenAI’s chatbot platform that provides entry to the corporate’s new “reasoning” mannequin.

The brand new subscription possibility, marketed for engineers and researchers, will price $200 per 30 days and gives limitless use of the corporate’s GPT-4o and o1 fashions, in addition to full entry to the o1 mannequin’s “professional mode”, which is designed to imitate human reasoning to reply extra advanced questions. The announcement was made as a part of OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas” throughout which it plans to point out off 12 new merchandise within the lead-up to the vacation season.

OpenAI previewed o1 earlier this yr with restricted entry to its o1-preview and o1-mini fashions, beforehand recognized by the codename Strawberry. The next-generation large language models confirmed off the corporate’s new strategy to advanced computations via chain-of-thought reasoning. Mainly, it’s a chatbot able to “considering” earlier than it responds to questions. Whereas chatbots working on fashions like GPT-4o or GPT-4 would possibly require refining prompts and questions with a purpose to ship a significant reply, o1 is designed to do all that work behind the scenes earlier than responding.

The outcomes, in accordance with the corporate’s benchmarking tests, are spectacular. OpenAI claims the o1 mannequin scored within the 89th percentile in programming competitions held by Codeforces and was in a position to accurately reply 83 p.c of questions from an Worldwide Arithmetic Olympiad qualifying take a look at. Against this, GPT-4o solely managed to get 14 p.c proper.

However the mannequin has its fair proportion of shortcomings, too. It’s each slower and costlier than GPT-4o and different fashions. Within the preview model of o1, input tokens—basically models of textual content that the mannequin makes use of to parse a immediate—price about three times the price of tokens for GPT-4o. An analysis of o1 conducted by the AI developer platform Vellum discovered the reasoning mannequin is 30 occasions slower than its predecessor.

Reviews of the mannequin additionally discovered that whereas it does appear extra able to tackling advanced math issues and coding duties, it’s no higher—and in some circumstances, worse—at answering easy questions. In actual fact, OpenAI’s own help pages admit, “GPT-4o remains to be the best choice for many prompts.”

After all, the brand new ChatGPT Professional subscription provides customers entry to each the GPT-4o and new o1 reasoning mannequin, so you might all the time swap between choices relying in your wants. Or, alternatively, you might spend $200 on the rest.