OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Go for one year to all users in India

OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT Go program disposable escaped of complaint for 1 twelvemonth to users successful India who motion up during a constricted promotional play starting November 4, arsenic the institution looks to grow successful 1 of its apical markets.

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the promotion but did not specify however agelong the connection would stay available. Existing ChatGPT Go subscribers successful India volition besides beryllium eligible for the escaped 12-month plan, the institution said.

Priced astatine little than $5 per month, ChatGPT Go launched successful India successful August arsenic OpenAI’s astir affordable paid subscription plan. The work aboriginal expanded to Indonesia and, earlier this month, to 16 further countries crossed Asia.

India, the world’s astir populous state with implicit 700 cardinal smartphone users and much than a cardinal net subscribers, has been a cardinal marketplace for OpenAI. The institution opened its New Delhi office successful August and is presently gathering a section squad to grow its presence.

Earlier this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said India was the company’s second-largest marketplace aft the U.S. However, making wealth from ChatGPT’s paid plans successful the state has proven challenging. The app saw implicit 29 cardinal downloads successful the 90 days starring up to August, but generated conscionable $3.6 cardinal successful in-app purchases during that period, according to Appfigures information reviewed by TechCrunch astatine the time.

ChatGPT Go offers 10 times much usage than the escaped mentation for generating responses, creating images, and uploading files. It besides features improved representation for much personalized responses, according to OpenAI.

“Since initially launching ChatGPT Go successful India a fewer months ago, the adoption and creativity we’ve seen from our users has been inspiring,” said Nick Turley, vice president and caput of ChatGPT, successful a statement. “We’re excited to spot the astonishing things our users volition build, learn, and execute with these tools.”

OpenAI’s rivals, including Perplexity and Google, are besides looking to pat into India’s ample and youthful idiosyncratic base. Perplexity precocious partnered with Airtel to connection free Perplexity Pro subscriptions to the telecom operator’s 360 cardinal subscribers. Similarly, Google introduced a free one-year AI Pro program for students successful India.

OpenAI is acceptable to big its DevDay Exchange developer league Bengaluru connected November 4, wherever it’s expected to marque India-specific announcements aimed astatine section developers and enterprises.