After months of anticipation, speculation and just plain hype, OpenAI has released a powerful new image- and text-understanding AI model called GPT-4 that the company calls “the latest milestone in its effort in scaling up deep learning.”

GPT-4 is available today via OpenAI’s API and in ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI’s premium subscription for ChatGPT.

According to OpenAI, GPT-4 can accept image and text inputs and performs “human-level performance” on various professional and academic benchmarks. For example, it passes a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers.

OpenAI spent six months iteratively aligning GPT-4 using lessons from an adversarial testing program as well as ChatGPT, resulting in “best-ever results” on factuality, steerability and refusing to go outside of guardrails.

OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch