OpenAI has surpassed 1 million paying users across its business-focused products, including ChatGPT Enterprise, Team, and Edu. This marks significant growth from the 600,000 paid users reported in April 2024, as CEO Sam Altman’s strategy to promote enterprise adoption of ChatGPT continues to pay off.
OpenAI does not reveal its revenue from business.
In a separate report by The Information, OpenAI is considering higher-priced subscriptions for upcoming large-language models, including the reasoning-focused “Strawberry” and a new flagship LLM named “Orion.”
Internal discussions have floated potential subscription prices as high as $2,000 per month, a significant jump from the current ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 per month. The free tier of ChatGPT remains popular, with hundreds of millions of users monthly.
OpenAI is working on the “Strawberry” model to enhance AI’s research capabilities. According to a July report by Reuters, Strawberry utilizes post-training techniques to further refine AI models after they have been trained on generalized data.
The pricing discussions come amid reports that tech giants Apple and Nvidia are in talks to invest in OpenAI, potentially valuing the company at over $100 billion. Last week, OpenAI revealed that ChatGPT had more than 200 million weekly active users, doubling from last fall’s numbers.
