OpenAI held its highly anticipated spring event on Monday evening. The event will showcase the new flagship language model that will power ChatGPT GPT-4o had been introduced. However, the news that pleased users the most was that this model, which comes with many important innovations, was offered for free.

OpenAI’s announcement that it will be bringing GPT-4o to free users has caused some confusion on social media in recent days. Users, from GPT-4o how to use, What is GPT-3.5?, Details about the new voting mode They didn’t quite understand it. We have answered all these questions in this content.

What is GPT-4o? What are the differences with GPT-3.5?

GPT-4o is the new technology that OpenAI introduced on May 13. large language model (LLM) name This model powers the ChatGPT chatbot that you use from your phone or desktop. The capabilities of the bot therefore come from this model.

GPT 3.5 is also a language model, but it is old. OpenAI introduced this model in 2022. GPT-3.5, In the free version of ChatGPT has been offered. So anyone who uses ChatGPT without paying currently benefits from GPT-3.5. In addition, paying subscribers use the model called GPT-4, which was introduced in March 2023.

Free users now get the new version instead of GPT 3.5 GPT-4o they will be able to use. In addition to outperforming existing models, GPT-4o 2x faster. Plus a built-in multi-model AI model. this too audio, text and images It means he can understand and produce content. It can also produce responses that are less delayed and feel much more human. For example, in voice mode, the person who is almost on the same level as a human As low as 232 milliseconds able to respond.

Can we use all features unlimited and for free in GPT-4o?

We said that GPT-4o will be free to use. Unfortunately, you cannot use these features indefinitely. Company features that are normally paid but are free thanks to GPT-4o (Internet access, file uploading, etc.), free within certain daily limits can be used. Once you reach this limitation, ChatGPT It automatically returns to GPT 3.5. OpenAI hasn’t announced what the restrictions will be for GPT-4o, but once you reach this you’ll need to be a Plus subscriber to continue using it.

For features that are normally paid, but that we can use for free:

Voice mode was already available in ChatGPT, the new version is only available to Plus subscribers

One of the issues that caused confusion was the voice mode innovations. Some users used the voice mode in the application and thought that new features would come. But this is not true. ChatGPT has had a voice chat function for months. So you could already talk.

What is new is the improvement of the voice mode with the arrival of GPT-4o. Voice responses are now more natural, less delayed and better. With the new model we can now see many new features such as emotional changes in voice tone. GPT-4o can process all input and output through a single neural network. Previous models required three different neural networks. One model converted the sound into text, GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 processed this text and a third model converted the text back into sound. GPT-4o does all this on its own.

Unlike other features of the new voice chat version Let us emphasize that it will not be offered to free subscribers. Feature, in the coming weeks only for Plus subscribers will be offered.

How to use GPT-4o?

OpenAI stated at the event that GPT-4o’s text and image features will be offered to all users. So the feature started to arrive gradually. Everything you have to do Update the ChatGPT application. After this, you can choose GPT-4o from the model options which you can access via the ChatGPT text at the top of the screen. However, as we said, it is offered gradually. So you may still not be able to access it. You may have to wait a while for it to arrive. It may take several weeks.

If you are wondering about GPT-4o’s capabilities: