January 6 news.OpenAI Founder and CEO, Sam.AltmanBJT said today on Platform X that byUsage by subscribers far exceeded expectationsThe ChatGPT Pro premium subscription launched by the company is still losing money even though the monthly fee has reached $200 (note: currently around Rs. 1,470).
Altman said the subscription price for ChatGPT Pro was his personal choice, theWould have expected to realize some profitability with this pricing.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro subscription tier releases on December 5, 2024, with the following three key differences over the $20 per month (currently around Rs. 147) Plus tier:
- Unrestricted access to GPT-4o and OpenAI o1 models;
- Unlimited use of the "Advanced Audio" feature;
- Access to the OpenAI o1 pro mode that provides the best answers to the hardest questions with more computation.
In addition, ChatGPT Pro's context window has been expanded from 32K to 128K, and access to the Sora video generation model has been enhanced.
it is easy see that ChatGPT Pro subscriptions place higher demands on OpenAI's allocation of AI computational powerAnd that means higher cost overhead.
According to a report by The Information in October of last year, OpenAI believes that the company could lose as much as $14 billion (currently about 1029.09 billion yuan) by 2026, and won't be profitable until 2029, according to the company.