According to Sam Altman (@sama), ChatGPT Go has officially launched in India, aiming to offer more affordable generative AI tools tailored to the Indian market. This strategic move is designed to increase access to advanced AI capabilities for businesses and consumers in India, potentially driving widespread adoption of generative AI across sectors such as customer service, education, and small business automation. OpenAI plans to gather user feedback in India to refine ChatGPT Go before expanding the service to other countries, highlighting a market-driven approach to AI product development (Source: Sam Altman, Twitter, August 19, 2025).

According to DeepLearning.AI, independent lab Artificial Analysis has found that the cost of evaluating advanced chain-of-thought reasoning models, such as OpenAI o1, is rapidly escalating beyond the reach of resource-limited AI researchers. Benchmarking OpenAI o1 across seven widely used reasoning tests consumed 44 million tokens and incurred expenses of $2,767, highlighting a significant barrier for academic and smaller industry groups. This trend poses critical challenges for AI research equity and the development of robust, open AI benchmarking standards, as high costs may restrict participation to only well-funded organizations (source: DeepLearning.AI, June 18, 2025).