OpenAI recently launched GPT-4o, an iteration of the GPT-4 model. To advance AI technology and ensure it is accessible and beneficial to everyone, GPT-4o will be rolling out more intelligence and advanced tools to ChatGPT for free. This 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.
Also, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted that the model is “natively multimodal,” which means the model could generate content or understand commands in voice, text, or images.
What is GPT-4o?
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. This newest flagship model provides GPT-4-level intelligence but is much faster and improves on its capabilities across text, voice, and vision. Also, t 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.
Also, in the future, improvements will allow for more natural, real-time voice conversation and the ability to converse with ChatGPT via real-time video. For example, you could show ChatGPT a live sports game and ask it to explain the rules to you. We plan to launch a new Voice Mode with these new capabilities in alpha in the coming weeks, with early access for Plus users as we roll out more broadly.
Developers can also now access GPT-4o in the API as a text and vision model. It is 2x faster, half the price, and has 5x higher rate limits compared to GPT-4 Turbo. We plan to launch support for GPT-4o’s new audio and video capabilities to a small group of trusted partners in the API in the coming weeks.
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What are the capabilities and evaluations?
Sam Altman states that GPT-4o is fast, smart, fun, natural, and helpful. In his blog, he said that this new model is a key part of a mission to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price).
Secondly, the new voice (and video) mode of the GPT-4o is the best computer interface. It feels like AI from the movies, and it’s still a bit surprising to me that it’s real. Getting to human-level response times and expressiveness turns out to be a big change.
The model evaluations for the latest GPT-4o version are:
- GPT-4o is trained on a single new model end-to-end across text, vision, and audio, meaning that all inputs and outputs are processed by the same neural network.
- It achieves GPT-4 Turbo-level performance on text, reasoning, and coding intelligence while setting new high watermarks on multilingual, audio, and vision capabilities.
- The new version sets a new high score of 88.7% on the 0-shot COT MMLU (general knowledge questions). All these evals were gathered with our new simple evals library.
- It sets new state-of-the-art on speech translation and outperforms Whisper-v3 on the MLS benchmark.
- Also, it is stronger than GPT-4 on the M3Exam benchmark across all languages. It is both a multilingual and a vision evaluation, consisting of multiple-choice questions from other countries’ standardized tests that sometimes include figures and diagrams.
- A set of 20 languages was chosen as representative of the new tokenizer’s compression across different language families, including Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English.
Other than all the above benchmarks, it has safety built-in by design across modalities, through techniques such as filtering training data and refining the model’s behavior post-training.
How to use GPT-4o?
OpenAI is the brainchild of GPT-4o. It is making more capabilities available for free in ChatGPT. Anyone with access to ChatGPT can switch to GPT-4o in the API. The benefits and features of GPT-4o are available in three different tiers, such as:
| Free Tier | Limit access to messages using advanced tools. |
| Plus and Team | 5x greater message limits than free users |
| Enterprise | High-speed access to GPT-4o and GPT-4oEnterprise-grade security and privacy features Higher message limits. |
GPT-4o has safety built into its design across modalities, through techniques such as filtering training data and refining the model’s behaviour post-training. It has also undergone extensive external red teaming with 70+ external experts in domains such as social psychology, bias, fairness, and misinformation to identify risks that are introduced or amplified by the newly added modalities.
