Sept 5 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Thursday it has more

than 1 million paying users across its business products,

ChatGPT Enterprise, Team and Edu, as the AI firm's chatbot

continues to see strong adoption owing to its advanced large

language model.

The figure is a rise from the 600,000 users it had in

April, indicating that CEO Sam Altman's push to get

enterprises to adopt ChatGPT

for corporate use is paying off.

Separately, the Information reported on Thursday that

OpenAI executives have discussed higher-priced subscriptions for

upcoming large-language models such as its reasoning-focused

Strawberry and a new flagship LLM dubbed Orion.

In early internal talks at OpenAI, subscription prices

ranging up to $2,000 per month were discussed, the report said,

citing one person with direct knowledge of the numbers.

ChatGPT Plus currently costs $20 a month. The free tier of

the model is used by hundreds of millions of users every month.

OpenAI, backed by Microsoft ( MSFT ), is working on

"Strawberry" with the aim to enabling AI models to perform deep

research, Reuters exclusively reported earlier in July.

Strawberry includes a specialized way of what is known as

"post-training" OpenAI's generative AI models, or adapting the

base models to hone their performance in specific ways after

they have already been "trained" on reams of generalized data,

the report said.

The reported pricing discussions come after media reports

said Apple ( AAPL ) and chip giant Nvidia ( NVDA ) were in talks

to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round that

could value the ChatGPT maker above $100 billion.

The AI startup behind the wildly popular ChatGPT application

last week said the chatbot had amassed more than 200 million

weekly active users, doubling from the number it had in the last

fall season.