OpenAI has released ChatGPT-4o, a quicker and less expensive version of artificial intelligence, and has promised to give it away for free to all users.
A live-streamed event on Monday revealed the ChatGPT-4o, an improved version of ChatGPT-4. The new huge language model, which can process 50 different languages, will be more adept at managing text and speech, according to OpenAI. It was trained on enormous volumes of internet data.
The business declared that although voice and video functionalities will be made available in the upcoming weeks, text and image input began to be available in API and ChatGPT on Monday.
Additionally, OpenAI made its announcement the day before Google I/O, the developer conference. After a sprint to catch up with Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI, Google, an early leader in the artificial intelligence (AI) area, is anticipated to use the occasion to reveal new AI advancements.
AI at everyone’s disposal
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the new product in a post on his own blog, stating that one of the company’s main goals was to make AI technologies available to everyone for little or no cost. However, according to Altman, the business is currently producing ChatGPT-4o.
“ChatGPT offers the greatest model in the world at no cost, with no advertisements or similar content.”
“When we first founded OpenAI, our idea was to develop AI and use it to produce a variety of positive effects on the world. Rather, it appears that after we develop AI, others will use it to produce a wide range of incredible things from which we may all profit.”
“As a business, we will find many things to charge for, which will enable us to offer exceptional AI services for free to (hopefully) billions of people,” wrote Altman.
“I’ve never used a better computational interface than the new speech (and video) mode. It reminds me of artificial intelligence from movies, therefore I’m still a little shocked that it exists. Reaching human-level expressiveness and response times proves to be a significant shift,” the CEO of OpenAI continued.
He pointed out that because the original ChatGPT “feels viscerally different, fast, smart, fun, natural, and helpful,” it has offered a clue of what may be done with language interfaces.
Although it has never felt completely natural to him, Altman claims that speaking with a computer now does.
“As we add (optional) personalization, access to your information, the ability to take actions on your behalf, and more, I can really see an exciting future where we are able to use computers to do much more than ever before,” Altman stated.
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Though ChatGPT still offers a commercial version, OpenAI’s move to make its most recent model available for free could indicate the firm is less focused on making money.
Billionaire Elon Musk sued OpenAi and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in March of this year for allegedly turning the company into a for-profit endeavor.
The goal of OpenAI, according to Elon Musk, who also co-founded the business and provided early funding, is to be a non-profit that advances AI for the good of humanity.
The CEO of Tesla stated that he was persuaded to assist in founding and provide funding for the firm in 2015 by Altman and Brockman, on the grounds that the company would be non-profit and would combat Google’s threat to its market share.
The complaint claims that OpenAI was obligated under the founding agreement to make its technology “freely available” to the general public.
