The company presented ChatGPT-4othe new version freefurther fast and with improved capabilities of its popular chatbot, which is at the center of the race for artificial intelligence dominance.
The technology manager Mira Muratiin an open session broadcast on the internet, said that this version of the tool “improves your capabilities in text, vision and audio“, and which represents a “big step forward” in its ease of use.
The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altmanhighlighted on the social network X that GPT-4o, the model on which it is based, is the best to date, “multimodal”and that will be available to all usersincluding those on the free plan.
“Until now, GPT-4 class models were only available to people who paid a monthly subscription. This is important to our mission, we want to put great AI tools in everyone’s hands,” she added.
The live presentation included several demonstrations of the capabilities of the chatbot, which used a female voice and was somewhat reminiscent of Spike Jonze’s film ‘Her’, about a human who falls in love with an AI.
“We want to take the mysticism out of technology and bring it to you so you can try it for yourself. In the next weekswe will implement these capabilities for everyone,” said Murati, who announced that there will also soon be news about “the next frontier” in AI.
ChatGPT 4-o: main new features of the new version
The new version of ChatGPT was able to “perceive emotion” from a nervous user, he recommended breathing, joked “like a vacuum cleaner,” and showed a range of styles and tones in his voice while reading a children’s story.
Among other things, the chatbot can now be interrupted and respond in real timesolve math problems via video, or do simultaneous language interpretation and translation out loud.
Murati also noted that the new GPT-4o model offers a new user interface (UI) and a new ChatGPT desktop application so that everyone “can use it wherever they are” and “easily integrates into their work routine.”
Likewise, it will be available to developers through the application programming interface (API) from OpenAI with the aim that these can build ‘apps’ using ithe said.
There is speculation that the company led by Altman is finalizing the details of ChatGPT Searcha Search Engine supported by AI that could impact the search engine sector, controlled until now by an always effective Google.
At the OpenAI event, scheduled one day before the internet giant’s developer conference, the technology company collaborated NVIDIA, another leader in AI. Murati thanked that company and its executive, Jensen Huanghaving provided “the processors more advanced”.
It is expected that GoogleOpenAI rival, will make announcements in the coming hours about its AI tool that competes with ChatGPT, called Gemini.
Meanwhile, the industry awaits the arrival of GPT-5the next version of the flagship OpenAI model, on which Altman’s company has been working for months and which would mean another great leap in the race towards general artificial intelligence.
OpenAI, leader in the artificial intelligence race
Sam Altman, the brain behind ChatGPT. (Photo: AP)
This race behind AI models led to Microsoft (main investor of OpenAI) to become the largest company in the world by market capitalizationsnatching first place from Manzana.
OpenAI and Microsoft dispute with Google the position of leader in the sector, although Goal (matrix of Facebook) and Anthropic (with investment of amazon) are also making their weapons to dispute a place.
All companies in the sector are trying to decipher How to cover the exorbitant costs of generative AIwhich largely goes to the American chip or semiconductor giant NVIDIA.
Until now, the free versions available have been those with fewer features of the OpenAI or Google programs, and there are Doubts if the general public is willing to pay to continue having access.
The creators of these programs also face a increasing pressure from authors and creatorswhich have begun to demand contributions for using their content to train their computer models, something that also tends to make the technology more expensive.
OpenAI has signed content deals with the Associated Press, the Financial Times and Axel Springer, but has also been embroiled in a lawsuit with the New York Times.
It also faces different lawsuits from artists, musicians and authors in United States.
