When OpenAI launched last December the subscription plan Promany users of Chatgpt They took their hands to their heads. 200 dollars a month for having the best tools of the company of Sam Altman It became prohibitive for many users, but plans for future subscriptions They are even more. According to The Information, OpenAI plans the launch of specialized artificial intelligence agents that can cost up to $ 20,000 per month.
These specialized AI agents will be adapted to different purposes. One of them is ‘A high -income knowledge worker’which will cost 2,000 dollars a month; another agent, specialized in software development, $ 10,000 per month; And the most expensive agent of OpenAi, $ 20,000 per month, you can make ‘Doctoral level research ‘.
Who are these agents aimed at? Not to the average consumer that has given Chatgpt the popularity it has, but to companies that could replace human workers with these AI agents. These would have the advantage of working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without ever falling sick or having to miss work for any reason. Seen so, it may not be so expensive, but the problem is the usual with the chatbots: Your reliability.
How many times have we heard that this or which one has achieved Doctoral level scores In tests in a certain matter? And how many new language models that They hallucinate less than the previous one, but they still do it even when do they work with closed data sets? Because the conclusion after listening to these statements so many times over the two and a half years elapsed since the irruption of the generative AI in the mainstream is that We are not yet where companies like OpenAi say again and again that yes.
And if these specialized agents are really good AI, who does not make mistakes and is so reliable as to replace human workers, Where does that leave 100 (pro) or 1,000 (plus) times less?
These doubts do not seem to have them, for example, in SoftBank. It is one of Openai’s investors and, according to the media, has planned Invest 3,000 million dollars in these agents.
Behind all this is the need for Openai to be A profitable company. The Information published last October that the company expects to obtain benefits in 2029year in which income would be 100,000 million dollarsand one way to do it is through increasingly expensive subscriptions. The chatgpt plus subscription of $ 20 will cost $ 44 by then.
But in the meantime, OpenAi accumulates losses and Go ahead thanks to its investment rounds and agreements like the one that established with Microsoft in 2022 so that the company uses its language models in COPILOT. As reported by the media, revenues in 2024 would have been 3.7 billion dollars and the losses of 5,000. Between 2023 and 2028, the company expects to spend 44,000 million dollars.