What Makes ChatGPT-4o Special?

Toward Humanlike Intelligence

Ignacio de Gregorio
8 min readMay 19, 2024
Generated by author using GPT-4o

As you already know, OpenAI finally launched a new model over a year after GPT-4. It’s still a GPT-4 variant, but with previously unseen multimodal capabilities.

Fascinatingly, it includes powerful features like real-time video processing, a key feature that could finally allow the creation of powerful virtual assistants that support our daily life in real time. However, such feature should be expensive and slow, which doesn’t add up considering the model is blazingly fast and free to use.

What is going on then?

OpenAI must have realized something that we aren’t aware of yet, in that intelligent design decisions we are discussing today can create much smarter models for a fraction of the price.

So, how does all this make sense, and what does it mean to the future you?

You are probably sick of AI newsletters talking about how this or that **just** happened. These newsletters abound because coarsely talking about events and things that already took place is easy, but the value provided is limited and the hype exaggerated.

However, newsletters talking about what will happen are a rare sight. If you’re into easy-to-understand insights looking into the future of AI before anyone else does…

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Ignacio de Gregorio

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