Hello! I'm wondering what are the strengths and weaknesses between GPT-4 and GPT-4o? Thanks!
#GPT-4 vs GPT-4o
nocturne bloom
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GPT-4 and GPT-4o are both advanced AI models developed by OpenAI, but they have some key differences in terms of performance, cost, and capabilities.
GPT-4o:
- GPT-4o, where "o" stands for "omni", is OpenAI's most advanced model. It is multimodal, accepting text or image inputs and outputting text.
- It has the same high intelligence as GPT-4 Turbo but is much more efficient—it generates text 2x faster and is 50% cheaper.
- GPT-4o has the best vision and performance across non-English languages of any of OpenAI's models.
- It has a context window of 128,000 tokens and a knowledge cut-off date of October 2023.
- GPT-4o's vision capabilities perform better than GPT-4 Turbo in evaluations related to vision capabilities.
- It is designed to handle a combination of text, audio, and video inputs, and can generate outputs in text, audio, and image formats. However, currently, the API supports
{text, image}inputs only, with{text}outputs, the same modalities asgpt-4-turbo. Additional modalities, including audio, will be introduced soon. - GPT-4o will automatically switch to the newest version when updates are released.
- It's worth noting that GPT-4o may use more tokens by default, which could increase the cost unless a max input tokens limit is set.
GPT-4:
- GPT-4 is a previous version of the model, and it has been improved upon with the release of GPT-4o.
- It has a context window of 8,192 tokens and a knowledge cut-off date of September 2021.
- GPT-4 does not automatically use file search unless it is explicitly turned on, unlike GPT-4o.
In general, GPT-4o is recommended for use cases that require high intelligence or reasoning about images as well as text due to its faster speed, lower cost, and better performance across non-English languages. However, if your use case requires the fastest speed and lowest cost, GPT-3.5-turbo is recommended as it is optimized for these aspects.
Sources:
- Accessing GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o in the OpenAI API (https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7102672-how-can-i-access-gpt-4-gpt-4-turbo-and-gpt-4o#h_fe7285909c)
- Models - OpenAI Platform (https://platform.openai.com/docs/models)
- Text generation models - OpenAI Platform (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-generation)
- Introduction to gpt-4o - OpenAI Cookbook (https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt4o/introduction_to_gpt4o)
- GPT-4o / GPT-4 API pricing differences when using API/Playground - OpenAI Community (https://community.openai.com/t/763075)