OpenAI executives discussed more expensive subscriptions for upcoming large-scale language models, including the inference-focused Strawberry and a new flagship LLM called Orion. Reported information Thursday.
The report, citing a person with direct knowledge of the figures, said that early internal discussions at OpenAI had discussed subscription prices as high as $2,000 per month.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
ChatGPT Plus currently costs $20/month.
The free tier of this model is used by hundreds of millions of users every month.
Reuters exclusively reported earlier this month that Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a project codenamed “Strawberry” that aims to enable detailed study of AI models.
According to the report, Strawberry involves a special technique called “post-training” of OpenAI's generative AI models, which involves adapting the base model to hone its performance in specific ways after “training” it on large amounts of generalized data.
The reported price talks come following media reports that Apple and semiconductor giant Nvidia are in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $100 billion.
The AI startup behind the wildly popular ChatGPT application announced last week that the number of weekly active users of its chatbot has surpassed 200 million, double the number from last fall's season.
