OpenAI Announces GPT-4o: Free and Unrestricted Chat!

Choco
6 min readMay 17, 2024

Last week, there were numerous reports that OpenAI was about to release a major update. Rumors suggested that the ChatGPT maker planned to enhance its chatbot’s capabilities and enter new markets by launching a competitor to Google Search.

🕵️‍♂️🔍 The reports claimed this new search product might be released a day before the Google I/O conference on May 13. However, Altman has denied these rumors.

He even took advantage of the trend and wrote in a post on :

Just now, OpenAI officially announced something that Altman said was “like magic.”

OpenAI officially announces its flagship model GPT-4o, completely free

OpenAI chief technology officer Muri Murati said that GPT-4o provides “GPT-4 level” intelligence, but improves GPT-4’s text, visual and audio capabilities.

“GPT-4o reasons with speech, text and vision,” Murati said during a keynote address at the OpenAI offices. To make it smarter, the OpenAI team added new technology behind the voice mode so people can talk to ChatGPT using a microphone.

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Choco

Senior Frontend Engineer | React | Angular | Node | Typescript