OpenAI releases GPT-4

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Released GPT-4

Why it matters

Better instruction understanding reduced the marginal value of prompting tricks; the axis of competition moved to models, safety and context

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In the model family tree — GPT family · 23 versions

  1. Earlier versionChatGPT
  2. This recordGPT-4
  3. Later versionGPT-4V(ision)
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