OpenAI exploring deal to roll out ChatGPT Plus subscription across THIS country

The craze for ChatGPT has only increased with every successive model launch with its GPT-4o native image generation feature going so far as leading a viral Ghibli style image generation trend in early this year. While OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch hasn’t gone as planned, the company still continues to be among the most popular in the market with over 700 million weekly active users. 

However, there could be a dramatic increase in ChatGPT’s subscriber base if a new report by Guardian is to be believed. The Microsoft backed AI startup is said to be in talks with the US government to give the whole country a ChatGPT Plus subscription which costs $20/month. 

Reportedly, Sam Altman and UK technology secretary Peter Kyle had recently discussed a multibillion-pound deal to give all UK citizens access to ChatGPT Plus tier. While ChatGPT is accessible to all users without a subscription as well, the usage limit is lower and some features like personalities, Sora video generator and AI agents are restricted behind a paywall. 

The report while citing two sources states that this idea was floated as part of a broader discussion in San Francisco about the opportunities for collaboration between OpenAI and the UK government. 

However, the UK technology secreatary did not reportedly take the idea seriously because it could have costed as much £2bn to the government. 

Kyle had earlier dined with Altman in March and April and in July he signed an agreement with OpenAI to give UK’s public services access to the company’s AI. 

The secretary has been a big champion of AI within the government and reports had emerged in March from ChatGPT on a lot of work related questions including why British business were not adopting AI and what podcasts should he appear on. 

“ChatGPT is fantastically good, and where there are things that you really struggle to understand in depth, ChatGPT can be a very good tutor for it.” Kyle told PoliticsHome in January. 

The British government is reportedly looking to attrack AI investment from the US and has already struck a deal with many of OpenAI’s rivals like Google and Anthropic. 

Meanwhile, OpenAI has reportedly been in talks with several governements over the past few months for providing its paid subscriptions.