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OpenAI Reverses ChatGPT Usage Limit Reduction
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In Short: The original reduction was expected to take effect on October 29, but the company is now implementing the change immediately.
Thibault Sottiaux, a software engineer and product executive at OpenAI, announced on X that the company will double usage limits for all ChatGPT Pro $100, $200, and $500 plans and Business Premium subscriptions.
This change primarily affects ChatGPT Work and Codex, which share usage limits under eligible subscriptions.
According to Sottiaux, the reversal is in direct response to recent backlash from users who were concerned about the original plan to reduce usage limits.
Sottiaux stated, “We heard your kind feedback and won’t be reducing usage limits for Pro 200, so your Work and Codex usage will stay the same.”
The original reduction was expected to take effect on October 29, but the company is now implementing the change immediately.
The usage of the dot feature will continue to be separate from default usage, as Sottiaux clarified.
This reversal comes amid ongoing criticism of OpenAI, including a dispute over usage limits and concerns raised by AI safety researchers who were dismissed from the company.
OpenAI is facing scrutiny over its handling of AI safety and its interactions with external organizations.
In a separate development, OpenAI’s nonprofit arm is funding scientific datasets to improve AI systems used in medicine and drug development.
The company is also facing backlash over a breach of Australia's Medicare data portal, which was not reported to the government until September 10.
OpenAI’s flagship new product, Dot, is locked behind its priciest consumer and business tiers, with the company claiming it can reach more than 4,000 connected apps.
Despite these challenges, OpenAI continues to make claims about AI advancements, such as progress on the Navier-Stokes equations, though mathematicians are skeptical of the specifics.
What this adds
This report adds details about the immediate implementation of the usage limit increase and the broader context of OpenAI's recent controversies, including the dismissal of AI safety researchers and the breach of the Medicare data portal.
Background
OpenAI has reversed its decision to reduce usage limits for ChatGPT Pro plans, doubling them instead following user backlash.
What's confirmed
- Thibault Sottiaux, a software engineer and product executive at OpenAI, announced on X that the company will double usage limits for all ChatGPT Pro $100, $200, and $500 plans and Business Premium subscriptions.
- This change primarily affects ChatGPT Work and Codex, which share usage limits under eligible subscriptions.
- According to Sottiaux, the reversal is in direct response to recent backlash from users who were concerned about the original plan to reduce usage limits.
- The original reduction was expected to take effect on October 29, but the company is now implementing the change immediately.
- The usage of the dot feature will continue to be separate from default usage, as Sottiaux clarified.
- This reversal comes amid ongoing criticism of OpenAI, including a dispute over usage limits and concerns raised by AI safety researchers who were dismissed from the company.
- OpenAI is facing scrutiny over its handling of AI safety and its interactions with external organizations.
- In a separate development, OpenAI’s nonprofit arm is funding scientific datasets to improve AI systems used in medicine and drug development.
- The company is also facing backlash over a breach of Australia's Medicare data portal, which was not reported to the government until September 10.
- OpenAI’s flagship new product, Dot, is locked behind its priciest consumer and business tiers, with the company claiming it can reach more than 4,000 connected apps.
- Despite these challenges, OpenAI continues to make claims about AI advancements, such as progress on the Navier-Stokes equations, though mathematicians are skeptical of the specifics.
What's still developing
- Meta’s next smart glasses could lose the camera OpenAI is footing the bill for more biology data GLP-1s are finding a life beyond weight loss Image source: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty / Images 2.5 The Rundown: Meta is reportedly dropping the camera from its next smart glasses as backlash over covert filming mounts, with an audio-focused pair codenamed Luna due this fall, The Information reports.
- OpenAI’s foundation is paying for that work, including salvaging research from failed biotech firms that could still help scientists understand which treatments work and which don’t.
- The Rundown: OpenAI’s nonprofit arm is paying to fill a gap that bigger models alone can’t fix: the shortage of biological data needed to turn AI’s medical ambitions into useful science, MIT Technology Review reports.
- "I guess Dot's having a slow morning," Li said, filling the dead air while OpenAI's flagship new product sat frozen in front of the exact audience it needed to convince.
- OpenAI says a Dot can reach more than 4,000 connected apps, and when you're not actively chatting with it, it runs what the company calls proactive research: scanning your connected accounts with read-only access to figure out what to do next.
- OpenAI is claiming a win on one of math's toughest open problems, saying its AI system made progress on the Navier-Stokes equations in just 88 hours, a puzzle that's stumped mathematicians for roughly 90 years.
- OpenAI's claim taps into a real and exciting trend, AI systems increasingly nudging into territory once reserved for elite human mathematicians and scientists, but the specifics of this particular announcement haven't cleared the bar that mathematicians need to call it a genuine breakthrough.
- OpenAI dropped a bombshell claim this week: its AI system made headway on the Navier-Stokes equations, a set of formulas that describe how fluids like air and water move, in just 88 hours.
- OpenAI says its AI cracked part of Navier-Stokes equations in 88 hours, mathematicians push back.
- We also discuss the highlights of Salesforce’s annual conference, where OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei defended their positions on AI safety.
- The move came just months after Amazon announced it was investing $50 billion in OpenAI and roughly a year after Altman attended the wedding of Amazon founder Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
- “We do not believe the path to superintelligence can be navigated safely if the people closest to the risks can no longer work in high-trust, high-bandwidth ways with each other and with third parties,” the researchers wrote.