ChatGPT GO: OpenAI Low Cost AI

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Jason Hood
August 19, 2025

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News of the Day

OpenAI bets on India market

OpenAI has launched a new low-cost subscription plan called ChatGPT Go, starting only in India.

With this move, the company hopes to turn many free users into paying subscribers in its second-largest market.

  • The new plan costs ₹399 (about $4.6) per month, much cheaper than the ₹1999 (about $23) Plus plan.

  • It offers up to 10x more usage than the free version, along with improved memory for more personalized answers.

  • India is already the top market for ChatGPT downloads (29M in the last 90 days), but revenue there has been relatively low.

India has over 850 million internet users, making it a key growth market for AI companies. By introducing an affordable plan and supporting popular local payments like UPI, OpenAI is positioning itself to boost revenue and compete with rivals like Google and Perplexity. If successful, ChatGPT Go could later expand to other countries.
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Social Media

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2nd News of the Day

Alibaba Next-Gen Image Editor

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-Edit, a powerful open-source model (20B parameters) that allows both precise edits and creative style changes, all while keeping original objects and characters intact.

  • Two editing modes: pixel-level changes (like rotating objects) and localized edits that leave the rest untouched.

  • Bilingual text editing: works with both Chinese and English text inside images without breaking fonts, sizes, or layouts.

  • Layered edits: users can apply multiple changes step by step instead of redoing the whole image.

Image generation has improved quickly, but editing tools have lagged behind. This model sets a new state-of-the-art, beating rivals like Seedream, GPT Image, and FLUX. By open-sourcing it, Alibaba is pushing forward more natural, flexible, and accessible AI-powered image editing.

Trending Tools of Day

April
Reach Inbox Zero by speaking with your email & calendar

Eleven Music API
First Music API trained on licensed data, commercial-ready

Chance AI for Android
Curiosity Lens: Your Visual Agent

Filtro
Your Product Hunt Filter Chrome

Fei
Production grade vibe coding

Everything else

🥊 Bot Battle: Researchers created a social media network with AI bots. The bots ended up at war with each other.

🔈️ Speaks Volumes: Builder Josh Whiton built a completely local voice AI with no internet on a MacBook M1 with only 16GB RAM.

🤖 Bad Robot: Facebook is allegedly rolling out AI characters like “Russian girl,“ and some users are upset. (We checked our accounts and the feature is not showing up for us, so we cannot confirm its existence).

📡 Dev Radar: Gemini API now comes with URL Context to visit websites, ElevenLabs releases Music API, Alibaba’s Qwen-Image-Edit comes with image text editing, and Nvidia releases mini model with reasoning toggle.

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