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GPT-4.1

Provider: Openai

GPT-4o: OpenAI's Omni-Modal Foundation Model

Overview

GPT-4o ("o" for "omni") represents a significant advancement in OpenAI's foundation model lineup, combining multimodal capabilities with enhanced performance and efficiency. Released in May 2024, GPT-4o unifies text, vision, and audio processing in a single model architecture while maintaining the same level of intelligence as GPT-4 Turbo.

Key Features

Unified Multimodal Architecture

  • Seamless input handling: Processes text, images, and audio natively without specialized adapters
  • Cross-modal reasoning: Understands relationships between different modalities with greater coherence
  • Reduced latency: Processes different modalities simultaneously rather than sequentially

Performance Characteristics

  • Intelligence: Matches or exceeds GPT-4 Turbo on most reasoning benchmarks
  • Speed: Significantly faster response generation compared to previous models
  • Cost efficiency: Reduced computational requirements without compromising capabilities

Interactive Capabilities

  • Real-time conversations: Supports natural back-and-forth dialogue with minimal latency
  • Voice interaction: Processes and generates speech with human-like intonation and timing
  • Vision analysis: Interprets complex visual information including charts, diagrams, and images

Technical Specifications

FeatureSpecification
Parameter countNot publicly disclosed
Context window128,000 tokens
Training data cutoffJanuary 2024
Vision resolutionUp to 1024x1024 pixels
Input formatsText, images, audio
Output formatsText, audio

Use Cases

Enterprise Applications

  • Document analysis: Processes multipage documents with tables, charts, and text
  • Data visualization interpretation: Analyzes complex charts and graphs
  • Multimodal content creation: Generates coherent content incorporating multiple modalities

Consumer Applications

  • Virtual assistance: Provides more natural interactions through text, vision, and voice
  • Educational support: Explains complex concepts using multiple sensory inputs
  • Accessibility features: Transforms content between modalities to improve accessibility

Developer Tools

  • API integration: Streamlined API with consistent behavior across modalities
  • Custom application development: Supports building specialized tools with multimodal capabilities
  • Function calling: Enhanced function calling capabilities across different input types

Limitations

  • No web browsing capabilities
  • Cannot execute code or access external tools without integration
  • May occasionally produce inaccurate information (hallucinate)
  • Limited understanding of highly specialized domain knowledge
  • Training data cutoff means no knowledge of events after January 2024

Ethical Considerations

GPT-4o incorporates OpenAI's safety measures including:

  • Content filtering for harmful outputs
  • Reduced potential for generating misleading or biased content
  • Regular red-teaming and adversarial testing
  • Continued monitoring and improvement of alignment techniques

Availability

GPT-4o is available through:

  • OpenAI API
  • ChatGPT Plus subscription
  • ChatGPT Team subscription
  • Enterprise licensing

Key Information:

  • Identifier: gpt-4.1
  • Base Model Type: gpt-4.1
  • Fine-tunable: No
  • Standard Model: No