ChatGPT Price Hike?

OpenAI is contemplating a steep price hike for its upcoming ChatGPT models, with rumors of potential fees soaring to $2,000 per 30 days. This drastic measure is driven by the hefty costs of operating ChatGPT, particularly because of its large variety of free users and the event of advanced models like Strawberry and Orion. Strawberry is anticipated to require extensive computing time and is currently used to generate training data for the Orion model.

The proposed price hike indicates OpenAI’s confidence that its technology offers substantial value to businesses, potentially justifying costs comparable to human labor.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT Enterprise has surpassed 1 million paying users, reflecting its growing adoption across enterprise and academic sectors, with significant presence beyond the U.S., in countries like Germany, Japan, and the UK. Read more.

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has secured $1 billion for his latest enterprise, Protected Superintelligence (SSI), which is now valued at $5 billion. Slightly than chasing industry buzz, SSI’s CEO, Daniel Gross, is searching for talent tired of the “scene” to assist power up its computing infrastructure.

Backed by heavyweights like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, the corporate plans to take its time in research before releasing any products. Sutskever, known for his departure from OpenAI after raising concerns over its rapid commercialization, hinted that SSI will rethink the widely accepted “scaling hypothesis” in AI.

Unlike OpenAI’s regular rollouts, SSI is laser-focused on constructing secure superintelligence from the bottom up. Read more.

At Semicon Taiwan, speculation about OpenAI’s next big leap, GPT-5, intensified after a Samsung executive unveiled a picture suggesting the model could boast 3.5 trillion parameters—greater than double GPT-4’s 1.7 trillion. The image also hinted at a formidable 7000 B100 compute setup, hinting at a considerable performance boost. With such high-profile attention and increasing public chatter, the debut of GPT-5 seems just across the corner. Read more.

IQM Quantum Computers has set a brand new benchmark in quantum processing with its prototype achieving an unprecedented 99.91% fidelity in two-qubit gates. This breakthrough, validated through interleaved randomized benchmarking, is pivotal for enhancing quantum entanglement and algorithm execution.

The corporate’s progress extends to impressive coherence times, with rest and dephasing times recorded at 0.964 ms and 1.155 ms, respectively. These metrics reflect the sturdiness of quantum information in individual qubits. IQM attributes this achievement to the maturation of its fabrication technology, which is poised to support the subsequent generation of high-performance quantum processors. Read more.