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OpenAI's paid tier, ChatGPT Plus, introduced in India
Just days after announcing GPT-4, the latest in its line of artificial intelligence (AI) language models, ChatGPT maker OpenAI has now made ChatGPT Plus subscriptions available in India.
This is good news because ChatGPT Plus is a prerequisite for access to GPT-4.
ChatGPT Plus is a subscription plan offered by the AI research and development company OpenAI, which is behind the conversational AI sensation ChatGPT.
While a limited version of the chatbot, powered by the older, GPT-3.5 model, remains free to access, ChatGPT Plus members who pay $20 per month get additional benefits.
The perks include general access to ChatGPT even during peak times, faster response times, and priority access to new features and improvements.
The company launched GPT-4, its most advanced system yet, just earlier this week.
GPT-4 doesn’t have real-world human capabilities — obviously — but “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” the company has said about its latest effort to scale up deep learning.
Exciting indeed, but GPT-4 has been made available only to ChatGPT Plus users, who are on a monthly subscription plan with OpenAI.
ChatGPT Plus was made available to customers in the United States (US) on 1 February, and the coverage was expanded outside of the US on 10 February. Over a month later, on 17 March, ChatGPT Plus is now in India.
OpenAI's chief executive officer, Sam Altman, tweeted 'We love India' with the help of emojis after the India launch announcement.
Since the pricing hasn’t been adjusted for the Indian market, the $20 monthly price (around Rs 1,650), plus tax, will apply in India, just as anywhere else.