Number Of Paid Users ChatGPT Reaches One Million Customers

JAKARTA - OpenAI said on Thursday, September 5, that it has more than 1 million paid users across its business products, be it ChatGPT Enterprise, Team and Edu.

This number increased from 600,000 users in April. In fact, some time ago, OpenAI admitted that the number of active ChatGPT weekly users has now reached more than 200 million users.

Separately, The Information reports that OpenAI executives are discussing higher-price subscriptions to the upcoming big language model, the Strawberry project, which focuses on new flagship reasoning and LLM dubbed Orion.

According to Reuters, based on information from those with knowledge of the amount, in initial internal talks at OpenAI, the new subscription price could reach 2,000 US dollars (Rp30.7 million) per month.

Price discussions reported came after media reports said Apple and chip giant Nvidia were in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round.

Currently, ChatGPT Plus costs 20 US dollars or around Rp. 307,000 per month, while the free version is used by hundreds of millions of users every month.

OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, is working on a project under the codename "Strawberry", which aims to allow AI models to conduct in-depth research.

"Strawberry" includes a special way in the so-called "post-training" or advanced training of OpenAI's generative AI models. The model will be adapted to improve performance once the basic model is trained with general data.