According to OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, new sign-ups for ChatGPT plus the premium edition of the AI tool have been paused because the platform has exceeded its capacity, affecting users’ quality of experience.
OpenAI, the developer of the widely used artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, has suspended new registrations for ChatGPT Plus, the premium edition of the AI tool, in response to the significant increase in utilization following DevDay.
Sam Altman, the organization’s chief executive officer, announced the news on Wednesday, November 15, via a post on X (previously Twitter).
Altman asserts that the suspension of new registrations is due to the platform surpassing its capacity, adversely affecting user experience quality. Atman reported that utilization of ChatGPT Plus has increased significantly since OpenAI’s DevDay, where the company introduced new application programming interfaces (APIs) approximately one week ago.
According to the CEO, while new registrations are currently on hold, users still have the option to opt in within the application to receive notifications when subscriptions reopen.
A week ago, OpenAI services, including ChatGPT and its API, encountered a sequence of outages attributable to distributed denial-of-service assaults and high demand. As a consequence, the organization has chosen to suspend new ChatGPT registrations.
Due to the delay, developers constructing generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) and utilizing the API should experience fewer complications (such as an inability to save GPT drafts). However, because they are exclusive to Plus subscribers, there may be a brief decline in the number of new users of GPTs.
Companies and developers have constructed GPTs for various purposes since their inception, including graphic design on Canva. Already-subscribed search marketers to ChatGPT Plus may utilize GPTs for content evaluation and SEO education.
With more than 180 million users, ChatGPT is one of the most popular AI chatbots, according to data from SimilarWeb cited by Reuters. However, increasing competition from Bard from Google and Claude 2 from Anthropic is present. Elon Musk declared the development of his artificial intelligence messaging program, “Grok,” on November 5.
OpenAI has recently broadened its horizons through a collaboration with the startup Humane to introduce Ai Pin, a wearable AI virtual assistant in the form of a physical AI device.
