OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced on Wednesday that the rollout of ChatGPT’s viral new AI picture options to free customers could be delayed, citing considerably larger demand than the corporate anticipated.
“Photos in ChatGPT are wayyyy extra widespread than we anticipated (and we had fairly excessive expectations),” Altman stated in a submit on X on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the corporate introduced the launch of GPT-4o’s native picture era, which lets customers add and modify photos, saying it might quickly come to all tiers of ChatGPT. As of Wednesday, OpenAI has solely rolled out the function to subscribers to ChatGPT Professional, Plus, and Groups.
In current months, OpenAI has confronted comparable hiccups round product launches, repeatedly blaming a scarcity of compute capability. Shortly after launching Sora in December, OpenAI disabled signups. Maybe, the corporate’s deliberate $500 billion Stargate information middle mission will assist with these capability constraints.