During its first-ever developer conference on Monday, OpenAI previewed GPT-4 Turbo, a brand new version of the large language model that powers its flagship product, ChatGPT. The newest model is capable of accepting much longer inputs than previous versions — up to 300 pages of text, compared to the current limit of 50. This means that theoretically, prompts can be a lot longer and more complex, and responses might be more meaningful.
OpenAI has also updated the data that GPT-4 Turbo is trained on. The company claims that the newest model now has knowledge about the world until April 2023. The previous version was only caught up until September 2021, although recent updates to the non-Turbo GPT-4 did include the ability to browse the internet to get the latest information.
GPT-4 Turbo will also accept images as prompts directly in the chat box, wherein it can generate captions or provide a description of what the image depicts. It will also handle text-to-speech requests. And users will now be able t