OpenAI has announced plans to introduce a new subscription tier for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot, tailored to the needs of enterprise customers. The forthcoming offering, called ChatGPT Business, will follow the company’s APIs data usage policies, meaning that end users’ data won’t be used to train its models by default. OpenAI previously telegraphed that it was exploring additional paid plans for ChatGPT as the service quickly grows. ChatGPT is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. OpenAI launched plug-ins for ChatGPT in March, which extended the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Despite controversy and several bans, ChatGPT has proven to be a publicity win for OpenAI, attracting major media attention and spawning countless memes on social media. OpenAI announced a new feature that allows all ChatGPT users to turn off chat history. Conversations started when chat history is disabled won’t be used to train and improve OpenAI’s models and won’t appear in the history sidebar. ChatGPT data can also be exported as of today. The new capabilities come as regulatory scrutiny grows over OpenAI’s data practices.
