OpenAI reveals in an internal email that ChatGPT already exceeds the 11 million paying subscribers sets, both for your accounts ChatGPT Plus as the corporate version ChatGPT Team. This figure, in comparison, exceeds the subscriptions of THE NEW YORK TIMES.
OpenAI has informed its employees that ChatGPT Plus and Team have more than 11 million subscribers.
The 200 million weekly active users reported by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAInow have a new monetization milestone for the artificial intelligence company.
ChatGPT would have already surpassed the 11 million subscribers who pay a monthly fee to use their most advanced AI models, specifically GPT-4.
This figure would include both personal subscriptions to ChatGPT Plusas well as corporate ones for ChatGPT Team group accounts, according to THE INFORMATIONciting an internal company email.
This breakdown would therefore make OpenAI bill for more than 10 million of personal (or professional) accounts by ChatGPT Plus, closer to one million por ChatGPT Team.
OpenAI could earn 2.7 million in ChatGPT subscriptions
This information was shared internally Brad LightcapChief Operating Officer (COO) of OpenAIin a message addressed to the company’s staff, although it has not issued any official statement.
Given the monthly subscription prices for both advanced usage tiers of ChatGPT, Plus and Team, it could be estimated that OpenAI already bills $225 million per month for your subscriptions or 2.7 million in annual revenue in this line of business (the other is the use of its API for different uses such as the creation of GPT, among others).
This subscriber milestone is also known after the technology company launched its Strawberry project yesterday the ability for ChatGPT to think and reason through its new o1 and o1 mini models, only available, precisely, for paying users, which will represent a new retention and/or acquisition function.
ChatGPT is already an emerging player in the subscription market
Finally, among the direct implications that this could have in the medium and long term for the media we would find that ChatGPT Plus is already a emerging actor within the virtual wallet of users, competing with digital subscription alternatives, including, obviously, the paywalls of the press.
In a simple comparison, the data is produced that ChatGPT already has more subscriptions than THE NEW YORK TIMESa newspaper that reached for the first time in its history the 10 digital subscribers in the last quarter reported.
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