OpenAI/Text & chat/Wednesday, January 29, 2025

GPT-4o (Jan 2025)

Key facts

Released: Jan 29, 2025
What it does: Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Reads files: Reads documents such as PDFs.Listens: Understands speech and other sounds.Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.Makes sound: Creates speech, music or other audio.

Knowledge cutoff: September 2023 · the latest events it learned about
How: For developers, through an API
Announced as: “Updates to GPT-4o in ChatGPT (January 29, 2025)”

From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).

Price and limits

What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.

Input: $2.50; per million tokensCached: $1.25
Output: $10.00; per million tokens
Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.: 128K tokens; about 96,000 words