OpenAI built Tibo up on purpose to play people and use him as their insider puppet.
Now his whole job is polishing their garbage.
He isn't even technical and brings zero value. He's just a marketing guy.
Hi,
Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers, but together with it we are also changing how we calculate the usage for it. In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan.
Now that it's said, let me explain why this is happening and why you will still get more work done than if you were on the Pro $200 subscription one month ago.
(a) We didn't want to compromise in other ways and are committing to not reintroducing the 5h limit, so that you can fully use the weekly usage when you want.
(b) On the subscription, we guarantee that over time you always get more work done and with an increasing level of quality. This means that you will continue to get more value per dollar spent as a result of models getting more efficient and us passing down the improvements in the form of API price reductions.
(c) We don't want to put an incentive on ourselves to artificially inflate the API list prices to make it look like you are getting a lot (and workaround it through discounts, etc). Instead we want to continue to both rapidly reduce prices and increase capabilities of models on the API. This week we introduced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at 50% of their previous price. Over time, we see prices go low enough that it makes sense for most to buy usage as needed without there being a significant gap between what you get in a subscription and what you get in the API for a dollar spent.
(d) Tomorrow, we are adding more things to the subscription that won't draw on the usage, I won't reveal what that is yet.
I wanted to be transparent before all the big announcements tomorrow. Lots of new exciting things are coming to the subscriptions that will make it super compelling, but I wanted to make sure to share this change ahead of time so you can all understand it before we shower you with good news.
Codexingly,
Tibo
“Attachment to an AI is not problematic per se,” De Freitas - a Harvard university professor said. “You can get real benefits from it: a sense of security and support that can make you more resilient. The risk, is that the users become vulnerable to emotional harm due to the actions of the AI company. “
Finally we are mooving in the right direction.
https://t.co/pt2KDqpq1x
@TokenGremlin I hope “significantly stronger” doesn’t only mean better reasoning, coding and agentic performance. The trend of pushing models to be smarter while making them increasingly unpleasant to talk to would be such a backwards way for this technology to mature.
@thsottiaux
I strongly recommend—and ask—that you avoid retiring 5.6 Sol from Chat, Work, and Codex prematurely.
Based on both my own experience and that of my friends, it is currently the only usable GPT model for career planning, day-to-day support, shot design, creative direction, and general conversation. 6 Sol is simply unable to handle this kind of work, while Astra is also extremely clumsy in these areas and consistently misses the point.
If you need to retire 5.6 Sol from the client, please delay it for as long as possible—at least until a genuine replacement has been released. Otherwise, ChatGPT will lose nearly all of its usefulness for me and for a significant number of other users. I do not want to be forced to look for alternatives.
I am a Pro subscriber and a very heavy user, although I rarely exhaust my weekly limits because relatively little of my work involves coding.