US EditionDeal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
OpenAI and UK officials explored a potential multi-billion-pound plan to provide ChatGPT Plus access to all residents, despite concerns over cost and privacy issues.
- Earlier this year in San Francisco, the UK’s Science and Technology Secretary met with OpenAI’s co-founder to explore a potential multi-billion-pound agreement aimed at providing nationwide access to ChatGPT Plus.
- The talks followed ongoing collaboration, including a July memorandum of understanding to explore AI integration in UK public services, amid concerns about costs and data use.
- The planned initiative aims to provide premium AI tools to the UK’s 69.6 million residents, enhancing education and government service delivery while addressing privacy and accuracy challenges.
- Kyle called ChatGPT “fantastically good” and urged embracing AI broadly while expressing reservations over the estimated £2 billion price tag for the proposal.
- If implemented, the initiative could accelerate AI adoption nationwide, reinforcing the UK’s position among OpenAI's largest markets and supporting AI’s role in public life.
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UK and OpenAI discussed ChatGPT for the entire population
The UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle and OpenAI Co-Founder Sam Altman discussed a £2 billion (approximately 2.3 billion euros) deal to provide the entire United Kingdom’s population (69.6 million euros) with premium access to ChatGPT, according to an exclusive by the Guardian. The British news outlet published an article this Sunday, August 24, revealing that Kyle and Altman met in San… Source
The head of OpenAI, who created ChatGPT, Sam Altman, and British Technology Secretary Peter Kyle. discussed an agreement of 2 billion pounds of sterline (2.3 billion euros) to offer all countries...
The cost could even reach 2 billion pounds – The responsible minister is an enthusiastic user of artificial intelligence, he had dinner twice with Sam Altman
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