OpenAI was to hold a livestream conference on Monday,13th May 2024 at 1700 GMT to demo some updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4. This was announced on X. OpenAI was planning to do this before the Google’s I/O development conference.

However, OpenAI decided to delay this. As we know ChatGPT wowed the world with its human-like written content and top-notch software code. Soon after its advent in late November 2022, it became the fastest application to reach 100 million active users. However, the traffic to ChatGPT fluctuates and is now again returning to its May 2023 peak. OpenAI has to expand the user base of ChatGPT, its flagship product.

GPT-4 will now be called GPT-4o, when 0 indicates its omnichannel or multi-modal.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT can receive and respond to voice commands, images and videos. GPT-4o juggles audio, images and videos faster than previous version of technology.

The app is available, free of charge, for both smart phones and desk top computers. It is a way to look at future of interaction between humans and matachins.

It is a way to combine chatbots with voice assistants, e.g. Gemini chatbot with Google Assistant. OpenAI will share the technology with users over the coming weeks.

The new app cannot generate video but can generate still images that represent frames of video.

ChatGPT has already demonstrated that machines can handle requests more like people. Previously, it was a patchwork of three different AI technologies — one that converted voice to text, one that generated a text response and one that converted this text into a synthetic voice. The new app based on a single AI technology GPT-4o can do all this. It is a more efficient technology. The company can afford to offer it to users for free.