According to TechFlow, on September 5, The Information reported that OpenAI is evaluating a high-priced subscription strategy for its new generation of large language models. People familiar with the matter revealed that the company's senior management has had preliminary discussions on pricing plans for the upcoming inference model Strawberry and the new flagship LLM Orion. A monthly subscription price of up to $2,000 was proposed in an internal meeting, but the final price may be adjusted.
This move will not only affect OpenAI's market positioning, but may also reshape the pricing landscape of the entire AI conversational product, including competitors such as Google and Anthropic. An OpenAI spokesperson has not yet made an official statement on the matter. Earlier news, Tadao Nagasaki, CEO of OpenAI's Japanese subsidiary, revealed that OpenAI's new generation model code-named "GPT-Next" is scheduled to be released later this year, and its performance is expected to be 100 times more powerful than the existing GPT-4 model.