OpenAI’s big update

by Julia Shapero and Rebecca Klar - 05/13/24 6:11 PM ET

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The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston.

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The Big Story

New GPT-4o model released with improved ‘ease of use’

OpenAI revealed its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-4o, during a live demonstration Monday as tech companies remain locked in a race to be on the cutting edge of AI technology.

GPT-4o provides “GPT-4 level intelligence,” but is faster and improved on the system’s capabilities across text, vision and audio, OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said.

Murati said the updated model is a “huge step forward with the ease of use” of the system.

“This is really shifting the paradigm into the future of collaboration, where this interaction becomes much more natural and far, far easier,” she added.

OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o one day ahead of Google’s annual developer conference scheduled for Tuesday.

The updated model will be available to all users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI chatbot, even those using the free version, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the social platform X.

During the demonstration, OpenAI showed off the capabilities of the updated model, including audio and visual queries.

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