Mitrade Insights is dedicated to providing investors with rich, timely and most valuable financial information to help investors grasp the market situation and find timely trading opportunities.

2021

Best News & Analysis Provider

FxDailyInfo

2022

Best Forex Educational Resources Global

International Business Magazine

Insights

News

Cryptocurrencies

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Go plan access to 16 additional countries

Source Cryptopolitan

OpenAI has broadened its ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new countries across Asia. The service package is now available in the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, East Timor, Vietnam, Nepal, Pakistan, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.

The tech company stated that users in countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, and the Philippines will be able to pay in their local currencies. According to the announcement, the remaining nations must pay in USD at a price of roughly $5, with the final cost varying based on local taxation.

ChatGPT Go offers more features than the free plan

1/ We’re expanding ChatGPT Go – our low-priced subscription – to 16 more countries in Asia

— Nick Turley (@nickaturley) October 9, 2025

Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, said the plan is designed for individuals seeking to access the firm’s most popular features at a more affordable price. ChatGPT Go offers more features than the free plan, including higher daily limits for image generation, messages, and file or image uploads per day. The subscription tier also provides users with twice the memory of the free plan.

OpenAI revealed that the initiative to expand the plan comes as the company has seen its weekly active user base in Southeast Asia grow by up to four times. The firm first launched ChatGPT Go in India in August, reporting that paid subscribers in the country have doubled since its launch. The tech company also launched the subscription plan in Indonesia in September.

ChatGPT Go costs 399 rupees per month in India, while 75,000 rupiah (around $4.53) in Indonesia. The other subscription plans, ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro, are offered at $200 and $25 a month, respectively.

The tech firm highlighted that ChatGPT Go subscriptions aren’t currently available in the iOS app in Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal. However, users from those countries can still access subscriptions in the Web and Android apps.

OpenAI’s rival, Google, has also launched its AI chatbot subscription plans in additional regions, as both companies compete for a larger market share in the region. Google introduced its Google AI Plus plan in Indonesia in September and expanded the subscription plan to more than 40 countries.

OpenAI introduces apps in ChatGPT

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed at the company’s DevDay 2025 conference this week in San Francisco that ChatGPT had surpassed 800 million weekly active users globally, up from 700 million in August. The tech firm also introduced apps integrated into ChatGPT, transforming the chatbot into an ecosystem similar to an app store.

The AI company stated that its pilot partners, including Canva, Coursera, Booking.com, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow, will be available, with additional pilot partners set to launch later this year. OpenAI also hopes to bring apps to its EU users soon.

“The evolution we’re trying to make over the next few years is one where ChatGPT itself is more like an operating system where you can come and use applications. If you want to write, there’s an app for that. If you want to code, there’s an app for that. If you want to interact with goods and services, there are applications for you.”

-Nick Tuley, Head of ChatGPT

The firm mentioned that it will launch apps to ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu later this year. OpenAI also plans to open submissions for developers to publish their apps in ChatGPT and establish a directory where users can browse and search for them.

OpenAI reported that its chatbot has experienced rapid global growth since its launch in late 2022. The firm noted that ChatGPT’s adoption growth rate in the lowest-income countries was four times that in the highest-income countries by May 2025.

Despite the company’s growth and recent $500 billion valuation, it reported an operating loss of $7.8 billion in the first half of 2025. OpenAI has doubled down its spending on AI infrastructure as it partnered with Nvidia to build data centers in a $100 billion deal.

Claim your free seat in an exclusive crypto trading community - limited to 1,000 members.

Disclaimer: For information purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Recommended Articles

Gold ends three-week slide at the $4,400 line — eight straight days of ETF inflows vs a 5% 10-year and a 100 dollar Spot gold closed Friday at $4,378.39, up 0.84% on the day and about 0.8% for the week — its first weekly gain in four weeks — with the intraday high of $4,399.67 leaving it 33 cents shy of the $4,400 line. Gold ETFs have now logged eight straight sessions of inflows, but with the 10-year back above 5% and the dollar index near 100, here is what decides whether this is a reversal or a bounce.

Author Suzie

Sep 20, Sun

Spot gold closed Friday at $4,378.39, up 0.84% on the day and about 0.8% for the week — its first weekly gain in four weeks — with the intraday high of $4,399.67 leaving it 33 cents shy of the $4,400 line. Gold ETFs have now logged eight straight sessions of inflows, but with the 10-year back above 5% and the dollar index near 100, here is what decides whether this is a reversal or a bounce.

October hike odds climb toward 60% as Goldman and BofA both flip — what Warsh's "dose of accommodation" really changed Rate futures now price roughly 55% to 62% for a 25bp hike at the October 27-28 FOMC, up from about 30% before Chair Warsh's post-meeting framing that the Fed is merely "removing some accommodation." Goldman Sachs has added an October hike to its forecast and Bank of America now sees moves in both October and December. Here is the repricing, the language behind it, and the two data points that decide it.

Author Irene Q.

Sep 23, Wed

Rate futures now price roughly 55% to 62% for a 25bp hike at the October 27-28 FOMC, up from about 30% before Chair Warsh's post-meeting framing that the Fed is merely "removing some accommodation." Goldman Sachs has added an October hike to its forecast and Bank of America now sees moves in both October and December. Here is the repricing, the language behind it, and the two data points that decide it.

US input costs rose at the fastest pace in four years — the September flash PMI beat is an inflation story, not a growth story US September flash PMIs came in far above expectations, with the composite at 58.4, a five-year high. But the detail that moved markets was input cost inflation at its fastest since October 2022, driven by fuel, transport and supply shortages. Brent is back above $100 and the 10-year Treasury yield has hit its highest since 2007.

Author Suzie

Sep 24, Thu

US September flash PMIs came in far above expectations, with the composite at 58.4, a five-year high. But the detail that moved markets was input cost inflation at its fastest since October 2022, driven by fuel, transport and supply shortages. Brent is back above $100 and the 10-year Treasury yield has hit its highest since 2007.

Brent edges toward $99 as Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz proposal — why the war-risk premium won't rebuild Brent crude rose 0.92% to $98.51 and WTI gained 1.15% to $93.51 after President Trump rejected Iran's seven-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But both benchmarks remain about 12% below their early-September highs, because supply never actually stopped. Hormuz flows ran at 33.7 million barrels this week, in line with the prior week, and Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline restarted on September 22.

Author Suzie

22 hours ago

Brent crude rose 0.92% to $98.51 and WTI gained 1.15% to $93.51 after President Trump rejected Iran's seven-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But both benchmarks remain about 12% below their early-September highs, because supply never actually stopped. Hormuz flows ran at 33.7 million barrels this week, in line with the prior week, and Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline restarted on September 22.

Four jobs reports in five days: what JOLTS, ADP, claims and the September payrolls mean for the October Fed decision The US labour market faces its densest data week of the month. JOLTS job openings land Tuesday (7.2 million expected), ADP on Wednesday (70,000 expected), initial claims on Thursday and the September non-farm payrolls on Friday (100,000 expected, down from 162,000). Markets price a 64%-70% chance of another quarter-point Fed hike on October 28. The dollar index sits at 100.77 and the S&P 500 at 7,729.8.

Author Mitrade

21 hours ago

The US labour market faces its densest data week of the month. JOLTS job openings land Tuesday (7.2 million expected), ADP on Wednesday (70,000 expected), initial claims on Thursday and the September non-farm payrolls on Friday (100,000 expected, down from 162,000). Markets price a 64%-70% chance of another quarter-point Fed hike on October 28. The dollar index sits at 100.77 and the S&P 500 at 7,729.8.

Popular Symbols