ChatGPT creator OpenAI launches GPT-4; most capable, aligned model yet, says Sam Altman

Artificial Intelligence research lab OpenAI launched GPT-4, the latest version of its hugely popular chatbot ChatGPT. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CRO said GOT-4 is the most capable and aligned model from the company yet.

“Here is GPT-4, our most capable and aligned model yet. It is available today in our API (with a waitlist) and in ChatGPT+. It is still flawed, limited, and seems more impressive on first use than it does after spending more time with it,” said OpenAI’s Altman.



ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that was launched in November last year and became hugely popular among users globally.

OpenAI said in a blog post that its latest technology is “multimodal,” meaning images and text prompts can generate content. The text-input feature will be available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and software developers, with a waitlist, while the image-input ability remains a preview of its research.

Altman said GPT-4 is more creative than previous models as it hallucinates significantly less, is less biased, and can pass a bar exam and score a 5 on several AP exams (those which enable students to earn college credit or advanced placement before they even start college).

However, he also said that though OpenAI is previewing visual input for GPT-4 it will take some time to mitigate the safety challenges.

“We now support a “system” message in the API that allows developers (and soon ChatGPT users) to have significant customisation of behavior. If you want an AI that always answers you in the style of Shakespeare, or in json, now you can have that,” he added.


In some cases, the firm said OpenAI's latest technology represents an improvement on a prior version known as GPT-3.5.

While the two versions can appear similar in casual conversation, “the difference comes out when the complexity of the task reaches a sufficient threshold,” OpenAI said, noting “GPT-4 is more reliable, creative, and able to handle much more nuanced instructions.”

An online demonstration of the technology by Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, showed it could take a photo of a hand-drawn mock-up for a simple website and create a real website based on it. GPT-4 also could help individuals calculate their taxes, the demonstration showed.


“We also evaluated GPT-4 on traditional benchmarks designed for machine learning models. GPT-4 considerably outperforms existing large language models, alongside most state-of-the-art (SOTA) models which may include benchmark-specific crafting or additional training protocols,” the blog post read.

The race between Google and Microsoft to adopt and embed generative AI tools in their products is rapidly picking up pace.

On Tuesday, Google announced a "magic wand" for its collaboration software that can draft virtually any document, days before Microsoft is expected to showcase AI for its competing Word processor, likely powered by OpenAI.