OpenAI Makes GPT-4 Generally Available

OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its paid API. From a report: Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers "with a history of successful payments" can access GPT-4. The company plans to open up access to new developers by the end of this month, and then start raising availability limits after that "depending on compute availability." "Millions of developers have requested access to the GPT-4 API since March, and the range of innovative products leveraging GPT-4 is growing every day," OpenAI wrote in a blog post. "We envision a future where chat-based models can support any use case." GPT-4 can generate text (including code) and accept image and text inputs -- an improvement over GPT-3.5, its predecessor, which only accepted text -- and performs at "human level" on various professional and academic benchmarks. Like previous GPT models from OpenAI, GPT-4 was trained using publicly available data, including from public webpages, as well as data that OpenAI licensed. The image understanding capability isn't available to all OpenAI customers just yet. OpenAI's testing it with a single partner, Be My Eyes, to start with. But it hasn't indicated when it'll open it up to the wider customer base.

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