| guide | OpenAI has temporarily closed the paid entrance to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus, so users who have not upgraded to Plus will not be able to upgrade at present. Officials said the reason for the closure was high demand, and it has not been announced when it will reopen. |
It is understood that the subscription fee of ChatGPT Plus is $20 per month. The upgraded service includes normal access during peak hours, faster response speed and priority access to new features.
The news sparked heated discussions on social platforms such as Reddit. Many netizens questioned whether this is a marketing method, and the function should be turned off first before triggering discussions. Some netizens also called on Microsoft to provide more computing resources to meet the needs of ChatGPT users.
Microsoft has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build a dedicated supercomputer composed of tens of thousands of Nvidia A100s for ChatGPT, and adjusted the server architecture to provide better computing power for ChatGPT and the new Bing. But now it seems that this is still not enough. In addition, Bing also experienced slow response problems on Sunday, and it is clear that the shortage of computing resources has become an industry-wide problem.
Last month, Musk and others jointly issued an open letter calling on all AI laboratories to immediately suspend the training of AI systems stronger than GPT-4 for at least 6 months to ensure that humans can effectively manage their risks. Two days later, the Italian Personal Data Protection Agency announced that ChatGPT was temporarily banned and said it had launched an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. For more Linux information, please check: https://www.linuxprobe.com/