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Silicon Valley notables pledged $1 billion to start it up. Donors included Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk; venture capitalist Peter Thiel; and Sam Altman, who became the CEO of OpenAI in 2019. Musk left the company’s board in 2018, citing time demands of running Tesla and SpaceX. In 2020, it released GPT-3, a text-generating tool that could produce plausible-sounding passages of text on demand.
On Wednesday, OpenAI said it will offer a premium version of the service, called ChatGPT Plus, for $20 per month. There will still be a free version that people can use during off-peak times.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.For the general public, the release of ChatGPT felt like a sudden leap forward, specifically in the field of generative artificial intelligence, where software creates content like texts or images based on descriptions.