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ChatGPT Go will be offered for free to users in India for a full year.
The promotion will start on Nov. 4.
India is OpenAI's second-largest market after the US.
ChatGPT users in India will soon be able to score a free subscription to the popular AI service. Starting Nov. 4, the freebie will be good for a whole year, saving subscribers the 399 rupees (just under $5) that they normally have to spend each month. Announcing the promotion on Tuesday, OpenAI didn't reveal how long it would be open, so interested users should sign up as soon as it becomes available.
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Unveiled earlier this month, ChatGPT Go includes everything in the Free plan but also kicks in extended access to GPT-5, image generation tools, file uploads, Python and other data analysis tools, extended file upload access, and longer memory. The idea is to offer a more affordable yet robust version of ChatGPT to countries outside the US.
Currently, Go is accessible in 90 different countries, including not just India but also such nations as Brazil, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam. A Go plan is available only as a monthly option; annual subscriptions aren't supported.
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