As the company promised earlier, OpenAI just held its Spring Update event streamed live on YouTube. The CEO Sam Altman previously stated that it was something that he had "dreamed about," but didn't go into much detail. However, the company has finally pulled back the curtain on what it calls "GPT-4o," and we can finally see what he meant. And best of all, it's available to free users.
In the next demo, the presenters wrote out an equation and showed it to GPT-4o through a phone camera. The presenter asked GPT-4o to help them solve it, but not to give away the answer. Sure enough, GPT-4o guided the demonstrator through the procedure of solving a simple equation, much like how a good math teacher would. Plus, it even had an answer for the typical "When will I ever use this in real life?" question, explaining how quadratic equations can help us with everyday tasks.
The demonstrators also used the desktop version of GPT-4o to examine some code they had. Not only could GPT-4o explain what the code does, but it could tell what would happen if you tweaked specific parts of it. And the demonstrators showed that GPT-4o can act as a live translator, listening to two people speaking different languages and telling one person what the other said in their native tongue.
Usually, when OpenAI announces a new version of its ChatGPT model, it's locked behind a paywall. However, the company has decided to allow everyone to use this new technology, albeit paid users will have five times more capacity. The new technology will be rolled out in the next few weeks.