On May 13, OpenAI held its spring update event, where the company announced its newest model, GPT-4o, an ai model with GPT-4 intelligence level. He “oh“GPT-4o stands for omnimodal capabilities due to its ability to process and integrate text, vision and audio. The event was overall good and adequately highlighted everything important and relevant, including the important announcement of the official ChatGPT desktop app for Mac .
Before we delve into the new ChatGPT desktop app for Mac, here are a few worth mentioning:
- The event started and ended with positivity and the first big news was that ChatGPT has more than 100 million users worldwide.
- The most exciting announcement was the presentation of their new model, GPT-4o. This new model is accessible to everyone. It will be available for free to all ChatGPT users.
- The new GPT-4o can better understand and respond to voice commands, allowing you to interrupt between responses to change the topic or tone or get a better response.
- The new and improved vision ability can see what is happening around you and respond to you accordingly, and even help you solve complex questions.
- The new model can even help you code in real time by simply using the desktop app by highlighting and pressing cmd + C. But for now, this is only available on Mac.
- Lastly, the new model's voice translation capability was one of its highlights due to its speed and lack of awkward delays in between.
The most shocking and interesting news was the ChatGPT desktop app for Mac. Some people were surprised that Microsoft had invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI. However, OpenAI came up with the Mac app first, possibly due to the much-rumored deal between Apple and OpenAI, which is said to be close to closing.
As suggested, the The Mac app is only available for macOS users and requires macOS 14.0 or later. Although the news is important, not everyone is happy because, as mentioned above, investors, such as Microsoft, expressed disappointment that the first release of the desktop application was for macOS and not Windows. However, OpenAI has assured that they plan to release a version for Windows later this year, since the majority of their users are Windows users.
The ChatGPT app can also live and stay pinned to your taskbar for quick and easy access.
The Mac app can monitor your screen and appear in any open tab.
You can easily share any image or screenshot using drag and drop option.
Within a few seconds, you will receive a response related to the image.
Finally, the app can communicate with you like an assistant and present you with appropriate answers to your queries.
In conclusion:
The OpenAI Spring update event was quite hectic and exciting. The introduction of the new GPT-4o model with its omnimodal capabilities is particularly intriguing. Additionally, the announcement of the ChatGPT desktop app for Mac is an important development. Some are disappointed by the lack of a Windows version, but that won't last long. Overall, it is clear that OpenAI is making impressive strides in ai technology. Now we wait and hope to get GPT-5 later this year!
Nishant, Director of Product Growth at Marktechpost, is interested in learning about artificial intelligence (ai), what it can do, and its development. His passion for trying something new and giving it a creative touch helps him interconnect marketing with technology. He is helping the company lead growth and market recognition.
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