Date: December 06, 2024
OpenAI is planning to increase the charges of its flagship AI chatbot model while bringing a new lower-tier o1 reasoning model with an update.
OpenAI plans to make its flagship chatbot more expensive, adding it to its more expensive tiers. However, the increase in the cost of the ChatGPT AI chatbot comes with a new introduction in the lower-tier o1 reasoning model with an update. The o1 reasoning AI model was launched as a limited preview version back in September with the code name Strawberry.
The updated o1 reasoning model was made available for ChatGPT Plus and Team users on 5th December 2024. Enterprise and Edu users will receive the version update from next week. The tech giant is also planning to introduce ChatGPT Pro for a $200 monthly subscription tier. It includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and advanced voice mode.
The new $200 subscription tier also includes an updated version of o1 made available exclusively to Pro users. The updated o1 Pro reasoning model utilizes more power to provide the best possible answers to the hardest questions. Except for this more powerful o1 version, the $20-a-month Plus subscription will continue to offer unlimited access to all of the company’s models and early access to new features.
OpenAI also kicked off its Shipmas period of 12 days, where the company will introduce new features, announcements, products, and demos. Among the upcoming announcements, the long-teased text-to-video AI tool Sora and a new reasoning model will also take the center spotlight.
Compared to the o1-preview, the updated o1 reasoning model enables faster, more powerful, and more accurate processing of prompts. The new model is also better at coding, can provide reasoning responses to images, and is equipped for solving complex mathematical problems.
Though the company did not give a definite timeline, OpenAI is planning to add web browsing, file uploads, and other support functions in ChatGPT. It also announced a ChatGPT Pro Grant Program that awards 10 grants to medical researchers at leading institutions, with more planned for other disciplines.
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