OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

OpenAI has begun displaying advertisements on both its free ChatGPT tier and the paid “ChatGPT Go” subscription in India, where the service sees over 100 million weekly active users. The company will roll out an ad-management platform next month to let advertisers target those users, marking the first monetization of its consumer-facing chatbot outside the United States.