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OpenAI halts new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups amid excessive demand

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OpenAI, the corporate behind the favored artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, stated it has placed on maintain new signups for the premium model of the AI software, ChatGPT Plus, as a result of a excessive surge in utilization after DevDay.

The corporate’s CEO, Sam Altman, announced this by way of a put up on the X platform (previously referred to as Twitter) on Wednesday, Nov. 15. In response to him, new sign-ups are paused as a result of the platform has exceeded its capability, thus affecting customers’ high quality of expertise. Atman stated the ChatGPT Plus has seen a surge in utilization since OpenAI’s DevDay, the place it introduced some new APIs a few week in the past.

The CEO stated though new registrations are quickly suspended, customers can nonetheless examine in throughout the app to be notified when subscriptions reopen. The choice to pause new ChatGPT signups follows every week the place OpenAI providers – together with ChatGPT and the API – skilled a collection of outages associated to high-demand and DDoS assaults.

The pause ought to imply that builders engaged on constructing GPTs and utilizing the API encounter fewer points (like being unable to avoid wasting GPT drafts). Nevertheless it may additionally imply a brief lower in new customers of GPTs since they’re solely accessible to Plus subscribers.

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Following the introduction of GPTs, builders and firms have built GPTs for numerous functions, corresponding to graphic design from Canva. Search entrepreneurs already subscribed to ChatGPT Plus can attempt GPTs for useful content material evaluation and studying web optimization.

ChatGPT is without doubt one of the hottest AI chat packages, with over 180 million customers, in accordance with SimilarWeb knowledge cited by Reuters. Nevertheless it faces rising competitors from Google’s Bard and Anthropic’s Claude 2. On Nov. 5, Elon Musk announced that he had created his own AI chat program, “Grok.”

The factitious intelligence firm has increasingly expanded its scope not too long ago after partnering with startup Humane to launch a bodily AI machine, AI pin. The machine serves as a wearable AI digital assistant.

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