Although OpenAI offers several AI models and services, ChatGPT is undoubtedly the main person responsible for making the technology company one of the most famous and currently named. A little less than a year ago (it went live on November 30th), we started hearing about this chatbot, which with a very, very fine-tuned design came to set the agenda for giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple, who at the same time In 2023 focused on AI in a way that we would not have imagined at the same time last year.

ChatGPT It was one of the most successful startups in the history of technology, but of course success alone isn’t enough to pay the bills, and as we already know, managing an infrastructure of the size necessary to offer such a service isn’t exactly cheap. So, since the beginning of the year, there has been talk of a possible payment plan, a model that materialized on February 1, when OpenAI confirmed the arrival of ChatGPT Plus with a monthly fee of $20, which, as you already know, provides access to a more advanced model (GPT-4), to third-party plugins, to web connections, etc.

When Yann LeCun categorically stated that ChatGPT did not innovate in the field of artificial intelligence and that it was not revolutionary, he was of course right on a technical level, but as I answered back then (with all due respect to LeCun, an institution in the AI ​​world), the innovation was the way artificial intelligence was brought to users, absolutely the right approach and at the right timewhich was the key to a success story like this one.

Since then, the volume of chatbot usage has seen peaks and troughs, and we’ve actually seen its numbers drop for a few months, which is understandable after the initial explosion. However, it seems that when it comes to payment plans, the numbers They had to be much betterto that extent OpenAI has been forced to suspend ChatGPT Plus subscriptions. Reason? Sam Altman explains it himself this tweet:

we are temporarily suspending new ChatGPT Plus registrations 🙁

The surge in usage after devday exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience.

you can still sign up to be notified in the app when subscribers reopen.

—Sam Altman (@sama) November 15, 2023

As we told you back then, the OpenAI developer conference took place last week, in which, among other things, GPTs were announced, a proposal that seems to have attracted more users who find it particularly interesting to create their own bots based on GPTs, but with all the “goodies” they consider necessary to add. As we already told you back then, it significantly expands the possibilities of the platform.

So, OpenAI was forced to suspend new registrations, we understand that while waiting to be able to provide the necessary infrastructure resources to continue providing the service under optimal conditions to those users who decide to register for ChatGPT Plus, something we understand will not take too long to return to. be allowed. Of course, this does not affect existing paid accounts, nor the registration of free accounts on the service.