OpenAI on May 13 announced the launch of GPT 4o (“o” for “omni”), the latest update to its artificial intelligence model that powers ChatGPT.
"GPT-4o reasons across voice, text, and vision. And with this incredible efficiencies, it also allows us to bring the GPT-4o intelligence to our free users. This is something we have been trying to do for many, many months.," CEO chief technology officer Mira Murati said at the OpenAI Spring Update event.
"It’ll be free for all users, and paid users will continue to have up to five times the capacity limits of free users," she added.
Murati added that GPT-4o is twice as fast as, and half the cost of GPT-4 Turbo.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a post on X (formerly Twitter) said that the model "is available to all ChatGPT users, including on the free plan!"
"So far, GPT-4 class models have only been available to people who pay a monthly subscription. This is important to our mission; we want to put great AI tools in the hands of everyone," he added.
GPT-4o will be rolled out in a phased manner and will support over 50 languages, including several Indian languages. The company said that it has significantly optimised token usage for these languages, with reductions of 4.4x for Gujarati, 3.5x for Telugu, 3.3x for Tamil, and 2.9x for both Marathi and Hindi.
The company also gave a demo of the model's real-time conversational speech.
The company in a blog post said that the model can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, which is similar to human response time(opens in a new window) in a conversation.
The company added that GPT-4o achieves GPT-4 Turbo-level performance on text, reasoning, and coding intelligence, while setting new high watermarks on multilingual, audio, and vision capabilities.
The company also announced that it is releasing desktop version of ChatGPT and a refreshed UI.
For both free and paid users, the company is launching a new ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. The company said that it plans to launch a Windows version later this year.
“We know that these models are getting complex, but we want the experience of interaction to actually become more natural, easy, and for you not to focus on the UI at all, but just focus on the collaboration with GPTs,” Murati said.
OpenAI's announcements comes just a day before the highly anticipated Google I/O 2024 keynote, where the search giant is likely to unveil its latest AI products and innovations.
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