recent,OpenAIExecutives are planning a jaw-dropping subscription plan - NewLarge Model"strawberry"and"Orion"The price is as high as $2,000 per month, which is 100 times higher than the current $20 for ChatGPT Plus! This sky-high price is undoubtedly shocking.
There are two main reasons why OpenAI dares to set such a price: one is the shortage of funds, and a large amount of funds is needed to support the huge computing power demand; the other is that the new product is extremely powerful, and coupled with the existing user base of hundreds of millions, OpenAI is confident in setting such a price.
Data shows that OpenAI has invested about $7 billion in hardware facilities and training large models such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and $1.5 billion in employee salaries, plus other copyright fees, which has reached $10 billion. The daily operating cost is at least $700,000, and the CEO's annual income is as high as $3.4 billion. OpenAI is clearly in a dilemma of continued losses.
However, the strength of the new products "Strawberry" and "Orion" is also the basis for creating high prices. It is reported that they are in the late stage of research and development, have more powerful reasoning capabilities, can solve complex logic and mathematical problems, and also have the hot AI Agent function, achieving a qualitative leap in many fields.
At the same time, OpenAI's ChatGPT series of products has also performed impressively. The number of corporate paying users has exceeded 1 million, of which 80% is one of the world's top 500 companies; ChatGPT Plus has more than 3 million paying users, 200 million monthly active users, and more than 1.6 billion monthly visits. These huge user bases undoubtedly give OpenAI pricing power.
For the sky-high subscription fees of Strawberry and Orion, if they can save users a lot of time and create enough commercial value, I believe there are still many companies willing to pay for them. After all, OpenAI has established its leading position in the field of large models with its technical strength and user base.