OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the corporate was compelled to stagger the rollout of its latest mannequin, GPT-4.5, as a result of OpenAI is “out of GPUs.”
In a publish on X, Altman stated that GPT-4.5, which he described as “large” and “costly,” would require “tens of 1000’s” extra GPUs earlier than further ChatGPT customers can achieve entry. GPT-4.5 will come first to subscribers to ChatGPT Professional beginning Thursday, adopted by ChatGPT Plus clients subsequent week.
Maybe partially resulting from its monumental dimension, GPT-4.5 is wildly costly. OpenAI is charging $75 per million tokens (~750,000 phrases) fed into the mannequin and $150 per million tokens generated by the mannequin. That’s 30x the enter value and 15x the output value of OpenAI’s workhorse GPT-4o mannequin.
GPT 4.5 pricing is unhinged. If this doesn’t have monumental fashions odor, I will probably be upset pic.twitter.com/1kK5LPN9GH
— Casper Hansen (@casper_hansen_) February 27, 2025
“We’ve been rising so much and are out of GPUs,” Altman wrote. “We’ll add tens of 1000’s of GPUs subsequent week and roll it out to the Plus tier then […] This isn’t how we wish to function, but it surely’s arduous to completely predict development surges that result in GPU shortages.”
Altman has beforehand stated {that a} lack of computing capability is delaying the corporate’s merchandise. OpenAI hopes to fight this within the coming years by creating its personal AI chips, and by constructing a large community of datacenters.