OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted: first, apologize for the chaotic release; will try to make up for the mistakes; soon, a broader rollout for API customers and ChatGPT subscribers will begin, starting with the Pro tier as usual. The post did not specify a date or model version number.

This aligns with the recent friction related to Astra's volume release. If paid users cannot access the new capabilities on the same day, the head of Codex announced a daily allocation of storage resets; the company has also slowed down frontier training due to network capacity assessments. The status page concurrently recorded an increase in errors across multiple components of ChatGPT and Codex. Altman has stated that enterprise revenue has surpassed consumer revenue, but the consumer Pro tier remains the first gate for the new model.

The release order is fixed: Pro before regular subscriptions, subscriptions before full public access, with API customers and subscribers entering "soon" in parallel. Compensation resets buy the daily quota, while the rollout promise buys access to the next tier model. After including the 1979 MIT multimodal experiment in the Astra preview, the product calendar remains stuck on capacity and safety assessments, rather than aesthetic introductions.

On the API side, there is also a push to retire old voice and transcription models, requiring developers to migrate between the old and new. The chaos arises from quotas, desktop and proxy workflows overlapping in the same week, rather than a single fault code that can be explained by an apology alone.

In market mechanisms, what is bought is Pro renewals and API quotas, while what is sold is the expectation of "immediate access to the new model." Funds enter the computing power queue from the highest tier subscriptions. Beneficiaries are users who have paid for Pro and can be included in the first wave; those under pressure are subscribers at the same price still waiting and developers who are pushed aside by reset quotas. The apology reframes the incident as a process, with gates still layered by price.

Supplement: He emphasized "as usual, starting with Pro." Enterprises have already contributed more revenue, while the highest tier on the consumer side is still used as a pressure testing ground.

Source: Public Information