OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Plus, A $20 Monthly Subscription With Faster Response Times – SlashGear

It now seems OpenAI’s plans of milking money from ChatGPT begin with a subscription. For $20 per month, a ChatGPT Plus subscription promises access to the AI even during peak hours. Right now, regular users often find themselves waiting out overcrowded ChatGPT servers because of too many concurrent enthusiasts, none of whom are paying customers.

In addition to steady access, ChatGPT Plus will also boost the pace at which users get responses to their queries. Furthermore, subscribers will get priority access to new functionalities and upgrades made to the system. ChatGPT Plus has already gone live in the U.S. market, and the company says it will start putting interested parties on the waitlist in the coming weeks. The subscription service will be expanded to more regions soon.

On the business side of things, Microsoft has announced some ambitious plans for ChatGPT. Semafor reports that Microsoft will integrate a faster iteration of ChatGPT to improve the in-house Bing search engine in a bid to challenge Google’s dominance in the web search game. The company is also pouring billions of dollars into the company (via Microsoft), with the intention of using “OpenAI’s models across our consumer and enterprise products.”