OpenAI’s livestreamed announcement occurred at 10 a.m. PT Monday.

The corporate described the occasion as “an opportunity to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.” CEO Sam Altman, in the meantime, promoted the occasion with the message, “not gpt-5, not a search engine, however we’ve been laborious at work on some new stuff we expect individuals will love! looks like magic to me.”

Because it turned out, the announcement was a brand new mannequin known as ChatGPT 4o — the “o” stands for “omni”– which provides higher responsiveness to voice prompts, in addition to higher imaginative and prescient capabilities.

“GPT-4o causes throughout voice, textual content and imaginative and prescient,” OpenAI CTO Muri Murati stated throughout a keynote presentation at OpenAI’s workplaces in San Francisco. “And that is extremely necessary, as a result of we’re the way forward for interplay between ourselves and machines.”

You’ll be able to watch a replay on the OpenAI web site, or by way of the YouTube embed under.