OpenAI gives three big news today at its conference for ChatGPT and GPT-4 users

OpenAI is growing rapidly. And if this morning we said that the company is in talks with Apple to be the artificial intelligence that will be included by Tim Cook’s company in iOS 18 and in the iPhone 16, now they have given a small conference for users with two big news.

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Among the presented novelties, we will start with the one that affects all AI users who use ChatGPT regardless of their platform or payment method.

And it is that OpenAI is making available to free users of ChatGPT a series of features that until now were only available through subscription, the most important of which is the ability to create custom chatbots and browse their GPT Store.

The company opened its GPT Store to paying subscribers just four months ago, on January 10th. The store allows users to create their own chatbots, called GPT, and share them. Some of the most popular bots right now are an image generator bot, a chatbot called Consensus, aimed at assisting in scientific research, and a logo creator bot.

The company said it would offer a revenue-sharing program based on participation for GPT creators, which began testing in March. But the audience for the bots has been limited due to the restriction of the feature to paying ChatGPT users.

And ChatGPT arrives on Mac

ChatGPT will have a desktop application, but for now it is only available for macOS. OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, announced the news during an event held on Tuesday, where she also mentioned that ChatGPT will have a revamped user interface.

In the demonstration shown by OpenAI, users were able to open the ChatGPT desktop application in a small window, alongside another program. They would ask ChatGPT questions about what was on their screen, either by typing or speaking. ChatGPT could then respond based on what it “saw”.

OpenAI states that users can ask questions to ChatGPT using the keyboard shortcut Option + Space, as well as take and annotate screenshots within the application. Both free and paid users will be able to access the new application, but it will only be available to ChatGPT Plus users starting today before a wider rollout in “the coming weeks”.

OpenAI plans to release a Windows version of the app “later this year”. ChatGPT is already available as an application on iOS and Android.

OpenAI has also shared an image of the new user interface of ChatGPT on the web, and it seems to come with fairly minor changes to the home screen and message design. “We know that these models are becoming increasingly complex,” explains Mirati. “But we want the interaction experience to be truly more natural, easy, and for you to not focus at all on the UI, but on collaborating with ChatGPT.”

GTP-4o, the AI that can reason through images, text or audio in real time

In addition to the new application and the new user interface, the company also showcased its new GTP-4o model, free for all users.

GPT-4o is their latest flagship model that provides GPT-4 level intelligence, but it is much faster and enhances its capabilities in text, voice, and vision.

Currently, GPT-4o is much better than any existing model when it comes to understanding and commenting on the images you share, the company claims.

For example, now you can take a picture of a menu in another language and talk to GPT-4o to have it translated, learn about the history and meaning of the food, and get recommendations. In the future, improvements will allow for more natural and real-time voice conversation, as well as the possibility of conversing with ChatGPT through real-time video.

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For example, you could show ChatGPT a live sports match and ask it to explain the rules to you. They plan to launch a new voice mode with these new features in an alpha version in the coming weeks, with early access for Plus users as they expand its usage.