Yep, at this point I'd rather they hold their announcements until everybody can access it, not just the beautiful people. I'm excited and want to try it right now, and would actually use it for a PoC I have in mind, but in a few months the excitement will be gone.

Yep, the announcement is quite cheeky.

Ultra is out sometime next year, with GPT-4 level capability.

Pro is out now (?) with ??? level capability.

The article says "next year" - so that could be as soon as January, right?

There was a waiting period for ChatGPT4 as well, particularly direct API access, and the WebUI had (has?) a paywall

I hate this "tierification" of products into categories: normal, pro, max, ultra

Apple does this and it's obvious that they do it to use the "decoy effect" when customers want to shop. Why purchase a measly regular iPhone when you can spend a little more and get the Pro version?

But when it comes to AI, this tierification only leads to disappointment—everyone expects the best models from the FAANGO (including OpenAI), no one expects Google or OpenAI to offer shitty models that underperform their flagships when you can literally run Llama 2 and Mistral models that you can actually own.