ChatGPT-Maker Mulls New $2,000/Month Rate
Is the party over for everyday users of ChatGPT?
Tech pub The Information reports that the maker of ChatGPT — OpenAI — is mulling plans to jack-up the price of future versions of the wonder-bot to as much as $2,000/month.
Currently, a basic subscription to ChatGPT costs $20/month.
Observes a story by Thomson Reuters: “The reported pricing discussions come after media reports said Apple and chip giant Nvidia were in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round that could value the ChatGPT maker above $100 billion.”
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*In-Depth Guide: New Video-to-Blog-Post AI Released: Bloggers looking to easily transform videos from YouTube, Instagram and similar into text blog posts may want to take a gander at ArticleX.
Designed to connect easily to video accounts, the new tool can quickly analyze a selected video, capture key info and then automatically generate a blog post.
That post comes complete with a featured image and an embed of the original video.
Plus, all the text is rendered in a customized brand voice.
For those who want a more automated experience, ArticleX can also detect new video content on the Web and then repurpose that content as a blog post directly on a Web site.
One hopes that in the midst of their transformation options, users always remember to credit the original source video.
*Pocket Change: New AI Chatbot Challenges ChatGPT at $10/Month: Ninja SuperGPT AI Assistant — a direct competitor to ChatGPT — now has a million users, according to Babak Pahlavan, CEO, NinjaTechAI.
Offering unlimited image generation, the AI is designed to work with more than 20 of the world’s most popular AI engines.
One of those AI engines — also known as Large Language Models — is its own Ninja-LLM 3.0, which is built on AI developed by Facebook parent Meta.
*Let the Existential Crisis Begin!: AI Okay for Novel Writing Contest: Looks like mere flesh-bags are going to be competing with the most advanced AI chatbots on the planet in this year’s National Novel Writing Month competition.
Organizers have green-lit use of the tech in the competition, which challenges writers to crank-out a 50,000-word novel in 30 days.
The blowback: Four members of the organization sponsoring the competition have resigned from their roles — as has at least one sponsor, according to writer Peter Biles.
*Highbrow Literature Meets AI: Because Even Fancy Words Need Automation: Writers unconvinced that today’s AI can produce highbrow literature are in for a rude awakening, according to writer Tim Brinkoff.
Adds writer Sean Michaels: “I think there is a misconception that Large Language Models like ChatGPT are not very good at writing in a lyrical, literary prose style.
“In fact, they can do it easily and quite well — just like all the image-generating software can do things like making photos in the styles of Wes Anderson or David Lynch.”
*Can’t Finish That Novel? Let AI Pretend You Did!: Writer Amanda Caswell says she was able to use Sudowrite — a popular AI tool used by fiction writers — to help get over writer’s block and finally finish her novel.
Observes Caswell: “Sudowrite has genuinely transformed my approach to writing. Six months ago, if you had told me I’d complete not one, but two YA science fiction novels, I would have laughed.
“If you’d told me one of those novels would hit #1 on Amazon for a week, I’d have begged for the secret.
“Sudowrite isn’t just a tool: It’s a creative companion that can help unlock your writing potential. Give it a try and you might just find yourself finally writing that novel.”
*Pixel Showdown: Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots Compete for Best in AI Imaging: Writers looking for arresting supporting images to complement their text may want to check-out writer Ryan Morrison’s ranking of seven top AI imagers.
The result: Image judging turns-out to be so subjective, you’ll probably want to take a look at each of the seven images Morrison generated and make your own assessment.
Fortunately, Morrison includes all seven images in his article — which are just a click away.
*Challenger Elbows-In on ChatGPT’s Business Customers: ChatGPT competitor Claude is attempting to take a bite out of the market leader’s business by offering an Enterprise edition of its own.
Like ChatGPT Enterprise, the Claude alternative offers greater privacy protection for businesses.
Also included is the ability to work with dozens of 100-page documents simultaneously — or a two-hour audio transcript.
*Apparently, There is Such a Thing As a Free Lunch: No-Charge AI Engine Nears 350 Million Downloads: Fans of open-source AI — freely released to the world to help stimulate the development of AI apps across the globe — learned that Facebook parent Meta has become a mighty player in that effort.
New data released by Meta reveals that the company’s free, open-source AI engine — dubbed Llama — has been downloaded nearly 350 million times.
Observes Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia: “Llama has profoundly impacted the advancement of state-of-the-art AI.
“The floodgates are now open for every enterprise and industry to build and deploy custom Llama supermodels.
“It’s incredible to witness the rapid pace of adoption in just the past month.”
*AI Big Picture: Time Magazine’s Tops-in-AI Rankings: When Changing the World Only Gets You Fourth Place: Time has released its list of the top 100 people in AI, which includes Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft and Sasha Luccioni, AI & Climate Lead, Hugging Face — a promoter of open-source AI.
Curiously, Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT and the person who made both AI and ChatGPT household words the world over — is rated at number four.
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.