OpenAI, the corporate behind the favored artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, stated it has put new sign-ups on maintain for the premium model of the AI software, ChatGPT Plus, because of a high surge in utilization after DevDay.
The firm’s CEO, Sam Altman, made the announcement through a submit on X (previously Twitter) on Wednesday, Nov. 15. According to Altman, new sign-ups are paused as a result of the platform has exceeded its capability, affecting customers’ high quality of expertise. Atman stated ChatGPT Plus has seen a surge in utilization since OpenAI’s DevDay, the place it introduced some new utility programming interfaces (APIs) roughly every week in the past.
we’re pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit 🙁
the surge in utilization submit devday has exceeded our capability and we wish to be sure everybody has an ideal expertise.
you’ll be able to nonetheless sign-up to be notified throughout the app when subs reopen.
— Sam Altman (@sama) November 15, 2023
The CEO stated though new registrations are briefly suspended, customers can nonetheless choose throughout the app to be notified when subscriptions reopen. The choice to pause new ChatGPT sign-ups follows every week the place OpenAI companies — together with ChatGPT and its API — skilled a collection of outages associated to high-demand and distributed denial-of-service assaults.
The pause ought to imply that builders constructing generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) and utilizing the API encounter fewer points (like being unable to avoid wasting GPT drafts). But it might additionally imply a short lived lower in new customers of GPTs since they’re solely obtainable to Plus subscribers.
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Following the introduction of GPTs, builders and firms have built GPTs for numerous functions, reminiscent of for graphic design on Canva. Search entrepreneurs already subscribed to ChatGPT Plus can strive GPTs for useful content material evaluation and studying web optimization.
ChatGPT is without doubt one of the hottest AI chatbots, with over 180 million customers, according to SimilarWeb information cited by Reuters. But it faces rising competitors from Google’s Bard and Anthropic’s Claude 2. On Nov. 5, Elon Musk announced that he had created his personal AI chat program, “Grok.”
OpenAI has expanded its scope recently after partnering with startup Humane to launch a bodily AI gadget, Ai Pin, which is a wearable AI digital assistant.
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