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OpenAI just made ChatGPT Go available in the US. The lighter version of ChatGPT's subscription costs $8 a month. Aside from the free version, OpenAI now offers three paid tiers. After testing a ...

Open AI will begin testing ads in Chat GPT for certain users in the US. The ads will be shown to free users and in the new Chat GPT Go subscription, which costs $8 per month. They will not be shown to ...

For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop expertise, or, at minimum, a steady hand with scissors and glue. On Tuesday ...

Just a month after introducing GPT 5.1, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.2, the next-generation model that will power its popular chatbot. GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's "most capable model series yet for professional ...

OpenAI is reportedly operating under a "code red" to deploy improvements to ChatGPT so the chatbot can better compete with Google's Gemini 3 model released last month. A few reports early last week ...

After several leaks, Google has finally debuted its latest Gemini 3 family of large language models. The flagship model, Gemini 3 Pro, replaces the 2.5 Pro model that was first unveiled in March 2025.

ChatGPT can help with many things—creating images, looking up information, role-playing, solving math problems, programming and much more. But at the heart of everything it does are so-called “large ...

What just happened? OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.1, an update that brings significant architectural refinements and expanded configurability to its flagship language model. The company is introducing ...

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.1, an update to its GPT-5 model, aiming to deliver faster responses, improved reasoning, and more flexible conversational controls as the company works to refine its ...

OpenAI today upgraded GPT-5 to GPT-5.1, the next-generation version of the AI model that powers ChatGPT. There are two versions of GPT-5.1, including Instant and Thinking. Instant is warmer, more ...

According to OpenAI, GPT-5.1 focuses on both communication style and intelligence. The company summarizes improvements to both the instant model and thinking model: GPT‑5.1 Instant: our most-used ...