OpenAI makes ChatGPT 'more direct, less verbose'

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, just received a significant upgrade.

OpenAI announced today that premium ChatGPT users — customers paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Enterprise — can now access an updated and enhanced version of GPT-4 Turbo, one of the models that powers the conversational ChatGPT experience.

This new model, “gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09”, brings improvements in writing, math, logical reasoning, and coding, along with a more current knowledge base. It was trained on publicly available data up to December 2023, unlike the previous edition of GPT-4 Turbo in ChatGPT, which was cut off in April 2023.

"When writing with ChatGPT [with the new GPT-4 Turbo], responses will be more direct, less verbose, and use more conversational language," OpenAI writes in a post on X.

The ChatGPT update follows the recent launch of new models in OpenAI’s API, including GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, which adds image understanding capabilities to the text-only GPT-4 Turbo. This update comes after a challenging week for OpenAI.

A report from The Intercept revealed that Microsoft presented OpenAI’s DALL-E text-to-image model as a tool for the U.S. military. Additionally, according to an article in The Information, OpenAI dismissed two researchers — including an ally of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who supported the removal of CEO Sam Altman late last year — for allegedly leaking information.