OpenAI Temporarily Suspends New Registrations for ChatGPT Plus due to Surge in Usage

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JAKARTA - OpenAI, the company behind the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, announced the postponement of new registrations for the premium version of the AI ​​tool, ChatGPT Plus. This is due to a high spike in usage after DevDay.

The company's CEO, Sam Altman, announced this decision via a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, November 15. According to Altman, new registrations were stopped because the platform had exceeded its capacity, affecting the quality of the user experience.

Altman said that ChatGPT Plus has seen a surge in usage since OpenAI's DevDay, where the company announced several new application programming interfaces (APIs) about a week ago.

we are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit :(

the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience.

you can still sign-up to be notified within the app when subs reopen.

— Sam Altman (@sama) November 15, 2023

The CEO said although new registrations are temporarily suspended, users can still opt in to the app to be notified when subscriptions reopen. The decision to delay new ChatGPT registrations follows a week in which OpenAI's services, including ChatGPT and its API, experienced a series of outages related to high demand and distributed denial-of-service attacks.

This suspension should mean that developers building generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) and using the API experience fewer issues (such as not being able to save GPT drafts). But this could also mean a temporary decrease in new GPT users, as it is currently only available to Plus subscribers.

After the introduction of GPT, developers and companies have built GPT for various purposes, such as graphic design in Canva. Search marketers who already subscribe to ChatGPT Plus can try GPT for helpful content assessments and SEO learning.

ChatGPT is one of the most popular AI chatbots, with more than 180 million users, according to SimilarWeb data. However, they face increasing competition from Google's Bard and Anthropic's Claude 2. On November 5, Elon Musk announced that he had created his own AI chat program, “Grok.”

OpenAI has expanded its scope recently after partnering with startup Humane to launch a physical AI device, Ai Pin, which is a wearable AI virtual assistant.