PTC News Desk: OpenAI on Monday made a more advanced, human-like version of the artificial intelligence engine that powers its popular generation tool ChatGPT available to all users.
The major product update from OpenAI arrives one day ahead of Google's anticipated rollout of Gemini, the search engine giant's AI tool that directly rivals ChatGPT.
“We are very excited to make GPT-4o available to all our free users,” declared Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati at the highly anticipated San Francisco launch ceremony. In the coming weeks, OpenAI plans to integrate a new model, GPT-4o (the “O” stands for omni), into its products. This tool will be available for unlimited access to paid users.
The company says the model can generate materials and understand text, voice, or visual commands.
“I've never used a better computer interface than the new audio (and video) mode. “It feels like a movie about AI,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on his blog I wrote it in Altman has previously cited Scarlett Johansson's role in the movie “Her” as an influence on his vision for AI interaction.
“Speaking into a computer was never natural to me, but now it feels natural,” he said.
During the virtual event, Murati and OpenAI engineers introduced enhanced features of GPT-4o, which is an obstacle for ChatGPT chatbots.
During the demo, the audio ChatGPT took questions from OpenAI employees and answered them with humor and human-like conversation. The bot guided users through difficult algebra problems, translated faces, and acted as an English to Italian interpreter.
The company claimed that GPT-4o creates a new industry standard for multilingual talk, audio, and vision, and has the same capabilities as previous versions in terms of text, reasoning, and coding intelligence.
In one example, ChatGPT was able to use a smartphone's camera to interpret an employee's environment and speak in a feminine, friendly voice reminiscent of the AI bot in the movie “Her.”
As far as I can tell, you seem to have some sort of production or recording setup, complete with lights and a tripod. “It looks like you're recording a video or preparing to share something,” he ChatGPT bot asked.
“please take it easy”
In recent weeks, it was widely expected that OpenAI would launch an AI-powered Internet search tool to rival Google's search engine, but Altman declared Friday that this was not the case.
GPT-5's debut had been expected by observers, but Altman said last week that the company would “take our time with releasing major new models.”
This event is just the latest in an AI arms race in which OpenAI's sponsor, Microsoft, has pushed Apple into becoming the world's largest company by market capitalization. The battle for generative AI leadership is fierce between OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. But Facebook's parent company Meta and startup Anthropic are also making big strides toward competition.
Companies are desperately trying to figure out how to pay for the astronomical costs of generative AI. Much of that cost comes from semiconductor giant Nvidia and its powerful GPU processors.
If the new model becomes available to all users, it could raise concerns about whether regular users are willing to pay a subscription and call into question OpenAI's strategy for generating revenue.
Until recently, users could only get free versions of chatbots from OpenAI or Google, but they had poor performance. “We are a business, and there will be many things we should charge for,” Altman said in a blog post.
Publishers and artists are also putting pressure on AI producers. They want to pay for the content used to train their models.
OpenAI is embroiled in a major legal dispute with the New York Times, despite having content agreements with the Financial Times, Axel Springer, and the Associated Press. Authors, singers, and artists have also filed separate lawsuits against AI companies in U.S. courts.
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