OpenAI has 1 million business users paying for ChatGPT, looks at price increases

A year after launching the first business version of its AI-powered generative chatbot, OpenAI said it has reached more than one million paid users for its subscription-based services.

OpenAI hit the one million mark five months after counting 600,000 paid users for its ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Team products.

Amid the AI ​​hype, tech companies big and small i am spending millions on tokens and computing power for training and running large language patterns. And these costs are passed on to customers.

It seems that OpenAI is considering higher priced subscriptions for its new, more advanced ones large language patternswhich could cost even more to train and run. The company has discussed prices of up to $2,000 a month, The Information reported, citing anonymous people familiar with the matter. However, this is not definitive, sources said. Apparently the company has a future model codenamed Strawberry which can reason better than its existing models and could be used to power ChatGPT, according to the information. He is also preparing for her the next LLM flagship called Orion.

What paying companies get with ChatGPT

Last August, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprisewhich offers users additional features including “enterprise-grade security and privacy” and “unlimited access to higher-speed GPT-4”. Five months later, the company launched by the ChatGPT team for smaller companies. OpenAI has released a version of the chatbot for university students called ChatGPT Edu in May, which therefore does not count towards his April number of 600,000. The company’s paid business services were an effort to offset the massive running costs of its models. The free version of ChatGPT has hundreds of millions of users every month.

The number of users is each person a company pays for in its subscription, which varies between companies based on size and needs, OpenAI said. Over half of paid users are outside the US, with Germany, Japan and the UK being the top three countries outside the US.

More than 90 percent of OpenAI business users reported increases in productivity, according to a survey of 4,700 business users, an OpenAI spokesperson shared with Quartz. Meanwhile, 88 percent reported saving time, and 75 percent “saw an improvement in creativity and innovation,” OpenAI said.

“From reshaping the way students learn, to optimizing patient care and transforming the way governments serve their citizens, artificial intelligence is redefining the way people work,” said Brad Lightcap, chief operating officer of OpenAI, in a statement transmitted by Quartz. “We’re proud to help more than one million paying business users work more productively, streamline operations and discover new opportunities for innovation.”