GPT-4o: Improved ChatGPT launched for free

Amid active competition in the Artificial Intelligence tools, OpenAI has released a higher performing and more efficient version of popular tool ChatGPT, ‘GPT-4o’, free to all users.

The development comes at a time when Google is about to make announcement for its own AI tool Gemini.

“We’re very, very excited to bring GPT-4o to all of our free users out there,” Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said at the highly anticipated launch event in San Francisco.

The new update will be rolled out in OpenAI’s products over the next weeks.

During the launch at virtual event, the developers demonstrated the new powers of GPT-4o, asking questions and posing challenges to the beefed-up version of the ChatGPT chatbot.

“We know that these models get more and more complex, but we want the experience of interaction to actually become more natural, easy,” Murati said before the demo.

This included asking questions to a human-sounding ChatGPT in Italian and asking the bot to interpret facial expressions or make complex math equations.

OpenAI and Microsoft are in a heated rivalry with Google to be generative AI’s major player, but Facebook-owner Meta and upstart Anthropic are also making big moves to compete.

All the companies are scrambling to come up with ways to cover generative AI’s exorbitant costs, much of which goes to chip giant Nvidia and its powerful GPU semiconductors.