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The $200 monthly pricing OpenAI has set for a subscription to its recently launched ChatGPT Pro is definitely surprising, said Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran on Friday, but at the same time its indicative that the company is betting that organizations will ultimately pay more for enhanced AI capabilities.In an announcement on Thursday, OpenAI said the plan, priced at nearly 10 times more than its existing corporate plans, includes access to OpenAI o1, as well as to o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice.Part of the companys 12 days of Shipmas campaign, it also includes OpenAI o1 pro mode, a version of o1 that, the company said, uses more compute to think harder and provide even better answers to the hardest problems. In the future, we expect to add more powerful, compute-intensive productivity features to this plan.For considerably less, OpenAIs previously most expensive subscription, ChatGPT Team, offers a collaborative workspace with limited access to OpenAI o1 and o1-mini, and an admin console for workspace management, and costs $25 per user per month. And ChatGPT Plus, which also offers limited access to o1 and o1-mini, plus standard and advanced voice, is $20 per user per month. ChatGPT Pro also costs far more than its competitors are charging. A 12-month commitment to the enterprise edition of Gemini Code Assist, which Google describes as an AI-powered collaborator that helps your development team build, deploy and operate applications throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC), costs $45 per user per month.Monthly pricing plans for Anthropics Claude AI range from $18 for Claude Pro to $25 for the Claude Team edition, while the cost per user per month with an annual subscription for Microsoft 365 Copilot, which contains Copilot Studio for the creation of AI agents and the ability to automate business processes, is $30.Small target marketWith its new plan, said Chandrasekaran, OpenAI is not targeting information retrieval use cases, because the chatbot is actually pretty effective for them.This latest salvo is, he said is more about potentially using [ChatGPT Pro] as a decision intelligence tool to automate tasks that human beings do. Thats kind of the big bet here, but nevertheless, its still a very big jump in price, because GPT Plus is $20 per user per month. And even the ChatGPT Enterprise, which is the enterprise version of the product, is $60 or $70, so its a very, very big jump in my opinion.Thomas Randall, director of AI market research at Info-Tech Research Group, said, the persona for ChatGPTs Pro offering will be very narrowly scoped, and it isnt quite clear who that is. This is especially the case as ChatGPT has an enterprise plan for organizations that can still take advantage of the Pro offering. Pro will perhaps be for individuals with highly niche use cases, or small businesses.Plus remains competitiveBut, he said, the value add between Plus and Pro is not currently clear from a marketing perspective. The average user of ChatGPT will still do well with the free option, perhaps being persuaded to pay for Plus if they are using it more extensively for content writing or coding. When priced against other tools, ChatGPTs Plus will remain very competitive against its rivals.According to Randall, Anthropic is still trying to achieve market share (though it has recently fumbled with an ambiguous marketing campaign), while Gemini is not currently accurate enough in its outputs to effectively position itself. As an example, when I asked ChatGPT, Anthropics Claude, and Gemini to give me a list of 100 historical events for a certain country, ChatGPT and Anthropic were comparable, but Gemini would only list up to 40, but still call it a list of 100.As for Microsoft Copilot, he said, it still struggles to showcase the value-add of its rather expensive licensing. While Microsoft certainly needs to show revenue return from the amount it has invested in Copilot, the product has not been immediately popular, and was perhaps released too early. We may end up seeing a rebrand, or Copilot eventually being packaged with Microsofts enterprise plans.

Apple is close to introducing iOS 18.2, a major update that brings significant additions to Apple Intelligence, its suite of generative AI (genAI) tools.Highlights of this AI-tinged release include the integration of Siri with ChatGPT, along with new writing and imaging tools. The update is expected to ship as soon as Dec. 10.Apple Intelligence supplements Apples existing machine-learning tools and relies on the companys owngenAI models. Introduced at Apples worldwide developer event in June, Apple Intelligence first arrived on Macs, iPhones, and iPads in October with the release of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, though additional features are being rolled out as they are ready.Improved Writing Tools are comingFor most users, additions to Apples Writing Tools suite will make the biggest difference. Users will get access to an improved and enhanced Compose tool which can write or rewrite things for you. ChatGPT integration is also tightened in the release, including within writing tools. Another potentially very useful tool with this release is message categorization in Mail. This will automatically attempt to sort and prioritize your incoming mail and messages. Theres AI elsewhere in this release, with tools including natural language search in Apple Music and Apple TV apps.Siri gets ChatGPT, and AI for the rest of usIf you are using Apple Intelligence and it needs to hand off your request to ChatGPT for completion, you will be warned and given a chance to abandon the request rather than share your data there. It is important to note that under Apples arrangement with ChatGPT, neither Apple nor OpenAI stores the requests made, so there is some provision for privacy. (It would be wise to make sure use of ChatGPT is authorized under your companys privacy and security policies.)The ChatGPT integration is the big-ticket item in this release, but for many Apple users the even bigger draw will be support for Apple Intelligence in additional countries; Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK all gain local English support. (Apples superb AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Test feature will also be made available to nine additional countries, including France, Italy, Spain, UK, Romania, Cyprus, Czechia, and the UAE.)What do I see?Visual Intelligence is another great feature to try out. It lets you point your camera at your surroundings to get contextual information about where you are. You might point your camera at a restaurant to find opening hours or customer reviews. You can also use this tool to get phone numbers, addresses, or purchasing links for items in the view.Imaging tools made available in this release include Image Playground and Genmoji. Image Playground will use genAI to create images based on your suggestions, or on pre-built suggestions Apple provides. It can also learn from your iMessage or Notes content to offer up imagery it thinks suitable for use in those apps. Image Wand will turn rough sketches into nicer images in Notes.For fun, there is Genmoji. This is a genAI feature that creates custom emoji, including animated ones.The idea is that you can type in, or speak, a description of the emoji you want to use and select among those the system generates or tweak what it creates.Apple Intelligence isnt available to everyone. You must be running a Mac or iPad with an M-series processor to run these tools, or be equipped with an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Mac, or any iPhone 16 model, and the most up-to-date version of the relevant operating system. Older iPhones will be unable to access Apple Intelligence features. All these new features should appear next week, even as weknow for certainthe company is developing more.Eroding consumer resistance, one fun feature at a timeThe big undercurrent to all of this is that by deploying these AI tools across its huge population of customers, Apple is also encouraging users to try out these tools. That process should eventually help erode consumer resistance to the fast-evolving technology. Apple becomes atrusted partner to show the potential of genAIin a deliberate and non-frightening way. The industry needs that, of course, given the steady emergence ofsomewhat less benign AI tools. The rest will be history, eh, Siri?You can follow me on social media! Join me onBlueSky, LinkedIn,Mastodon, andMeWe.