OpenAI offers $20 monthly pricing for ChatGPT Plus.

With the $20 per month ChatGPT Plus plan from OpenAI, you can access the AI chatbot ahead of free users even during times of high demand. As well as "faster response times" the company claims that the plan would provide you "priority access to new features and improvements."

In the upcoming weeks, OpenAI says it will send invitations for the service to US residents who are on its waitlist, and it plans to eventually extend the deployment to other nations and areas.

Even little than a week ago, it appeared that OpenAI will launch a plus or pro version of the service for $42 a month, a significantly higher cost that would be difficult for users who weren't generating income from the service to justify. However, for $20 per month, it might be affordable for a wider group of users, such as schools and companies that require dependable access to AI-generated writing.

It might also provide a benchmark for upcoming, commercially available, paid AI chatbots. Given that OpenAI is a pioneer in the space, anyone attempting to launch a bot that costs more than $20 per month will need to make a strong case for why it is superior to ChatGPT Plus.

It can be debatable if AI should be used to write homework assignments like articles or essays. Although it's unclear at this stage how effective it will be, OpenAI appears to be aware of this as it this week issued OpenAI's free tool designed to identify created text.

ChatGPT won't turn into a premium-only app. According to OpenAI, it will keep providing free access while paying customers "help support free access available to as many people as feasible."

Although several businesses have been developing AI chatbots that are similar to (and probably better than) ChatGPT, OpenAI's choice to make the tool available online for free has turned out to be a wise one. Web users are experimenting with ChatGPT in a variety of ways, from writing academic papers to creating chat-up lines for dating apps, which has generated a lot of excitement (in the latter case: unsuccessfully).

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, tweeted last month that ChatGPT is "very restricted, yet good enough at some things to generate a misleading image of grandeur" in an attempt to quell some of the euphorias. It would be "a mistake to be depending on it for anything essential right now," according to Altman, who also claims that the program has problems with "robustness and veracity." However, some businesses are still experimenting with incorporating ChatGPT into their processes, and it has been rumored that Microsoft is using the program to enhance Bing.

At the same time, Microsoft, which has previously worked closely with OpenAI and provided both financial support and the processing power required to train its AI systems, is apparently looking to invest $10 billion in the company. According to the agreement, Microsoft would receive 75% of OpenAI's income until the Redmond company recovers its initial investment. Some of the products developed by OpenAI, such as the picture generator DALL-E, already have paid access. The logical next step would be to monetize ChatGPT.