OpenAI launches faster, cheaper AI model, GPT-4o
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The news: OpenAI has unveiled its newest iteration of its GPT-4 AI model, the large language model (LLM) which powers ChatGPT.
The context: Revealed in a livestream led by the company’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, on Monday, the AI giant’s new model called GPT-4o, will be faster, cheaper and more intuitive than its predecessor. The new LLM which is trained in 50 languages, will be able to accept any combination of text, audio, and image as input, and can generate any combination of text, audio, and image outputs.
OpenAI explained that the model will also be able provide much more natural human-computer interactions, as it can respond to audio inputs in just 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, which is similar to human response time. During the live stream, OpenAI employees demonstrated how the new capabilities allow for near real time translation.
The company says the new capabilities will be rolled out iteratively, with text and image features beginning roll out today through ChatGPT. The new model will be available to all users, while paying users will have up to five times the capacity limits of non-paying users.
An OpenAI blog post on the update explains that GPT-4o is still experiencing some limitations, and calls for feedback to continue improving the model.
The announcement comes one day ahead of Google’s I/O developer conference, where the tech giant is expected to unveil several AI related updates as it competes with Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
The source: OpenAI blog post
