You’ve probably already heard the announcement that, yesterday, OpenAI is launching GPT-4o. Let’s unpack their busy day!
As reported by The Verge, OpenAI is launching GPT-4o, an iteration of the GPT-4 model that powers its hallmark product, ChatGPT. The updated model “is much faster” and improves “capabilities across text, vision, and audio,” OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said in a livestream announcement on Monday. It’ll be free for all users, and paid users will continue to “have up to five times the capacity limits” of free users, Murati added.
As their blog post states: “GPT-4o (‘o’ for ‘omni’) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, which is similar to human response time in a conversation.”
The app will be able to act as a Her-like voice assistant (hopefully without abandoning you), responding in real time and observing the world around you. The current voice mode is more limited, responding to one prompt at a time and working with only what it can hear.
How soon? Well, maybe not right away, per the blog post:
“We recognize that GPT-4o’s audio modalities present a variety of novel risks. Today we are publicly releasing text and image inputs and text outputs. Over the upcoming weeks and months, we’ll be working on the technical infrastructure, usability via post-training, and safety necessary to release the other modalities. For example, at launch, audio outputs will be limited to a selection of preset voices and will abide by our existing safety policies. We will share further details addressing the full range of GPT-4o’s modalities in the forthcoming system card.”
The blog post also covers a series of model evaluations as measured on traditional benchmarks. It will be very interesting to see how much more it can do – now – than ChatGPT 4. I have a week to play with it before I discuss it in next week’s ACEDS webinar!
Not only that, but Apple is nearing a deal with OpenAI just weeks ahead of the launch of its iOS 18 iPhone upgrade. The OpenAI deal will allow Apple to use the firm’s AI technology on the iPhone, according to a new Bloomberg report, which cites “people familiar with the matter.”
Bye-bye Siri, hello “Scarlett”? 😀 We’ll see.
So, what do you think? Are you excited about the fact that OpenAI is launching GPT-4o? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.
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