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Introducing ChatGPT Plus

OpenAI Blog 1 February 2023, 08:00

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Plus, a paid subscription tier for its ChatGPT conversational AI service. The subscription costs $20 monthly and provides faster response times and priority access during peak usage periods. Subscribers gain priority access to new features, while the free version of ChatGPT remains available to all users.

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We’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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