Dec 5 (Reuters) - OpenAI on Thursday launched a version

of its popular chatbot ChatGPT priced at $200 per month, which

can be used in engineering fields and for research, as the AI

firm looks to expand industry applications for its technology.

The new tier, called ChatGPT Pro, will be in addition to

OpenAI's existing subscriptions of ChatGPT Plus, Team and

Enterprise. It underscores the firm's ambitions to further

commercialize its technology, which had kicked off the AI boom.

ChatGPT Pro will allow access to the most advanced OpenAI

tools, including unlimited access to its new reasoning model o1,

o1 mini, GPT-4o and advanced voice, the company said. The

subscription also includes o1 pro mode, a version which uses

additional computing power to solve more complex queries.

OpenAI said the o1 pro mode performs better on machine

learning benchmarks across math, science and coding compared

with the o1 and o1-preview versions.