Neil Cybart 5/15/24 Neil Cybart 5/15/24

OpenAI’s Spring Update Event, GPT-4o, Apple Hardware at the OpenAI Event

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OpenAI’s Spring Update Event

In what may become an annual tradition, OpenAI held a spring event to unveil ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates. GPT-4 is OpenAI’s multimodal large language model. The event took place just one day ahead of Google’s annual developer conference and about a month ahead of Apple's WWDC.

The livestreamed presentation (available here via YouTube), which appears to have taken place at OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco, had an audience consisting of two to three dozen people. Judging from the applause, the crowd was comprised of OpenAI employees. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati kicked things off and then guided the presentation along.

Murati anchored the event around three updates:

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