The Verge
What $200 of ChatGPT is really worth
Over the last few weeks, OpenAI has done the previously unthinkable: it has consistently shipped interesting new user-facing products. First there was Tasks, a way to engage ChatGPT in helping you get things done. Then there was Operator, a way for the chatbot to actually do things for you. And finally there was “deep research,†an extremely imperfect but still very interesting tool for generating deep dives.
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For now, Operator and deep research are both gated behind ChatGPT’s most expensive subscription, the $200-a-month Pro tier. (Tasks is available on the $20 Plus plan.) So on this episode of The Vergecast, we paid up and got to testing. _The Verge_’s Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about her experience with the shiniest things about ChatGPT – the good, the bad, the ugly, and the really, really, impossibly slow.
After that, _The Verge_’s Liz Lopatto joins us for an update on Elon Musk and the DOGE takeover of the US government. Liz explains where things stand now, why this is all such a big deal, and where this crisis is really headed. Musk has long assumed, often correctly, that the rules si …