ChatGPT – The update to OpenAI’s flagship product came a day before Google is expected to announce Gemini, the search engine giant’s artificial intelligence tool that competes head-on with ChatGPT.
“We are very, very excited to bring GPT-4o to all of our free users,” said Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati at the highly anticipated launch event in San Francisco.
The company said the new model will be rolled out to OpenAI products over the next few weeks.
Murati and OpenAI engineers demonstrated the new powers of GPT-4o at the virtual event, asking questions and posing challenges to the improved version of the ChatGPT chatbot. We know that these models are becoming more and more complex, but we want to make the interaction experience more natural and easier,” Murati said before the demo.
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This included asking human-sounding ChatGPT questions in Italian and asking the robot to interpret facial expressions or do complex mathematical equations.
The event is just the latest episode in the AI arms race that has seen OpenAI sponsor Microsoft surpass Apple as the world’s largest company by market capitalization.
OpenAI and Microsoft are in a heated rivalry with Google to be the biggest player in generative AI, but Facebook owner Meta and newcomer Anthropic are also making big strides to compete.
Companies are all scrambling to find ways to cover the exorbitant costs of generative AI, much of which goes to chip giant Nvidia and its powerful GPU semiconductors.
For now, lower-performing versions of OpenIA or Google chatbots are available to customers for free, and questions remain about whether the general public is willing to pay a subscription to maintain access to the technology.
