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What is GPT 4o?
GPT-4o, (where o stands for omni) is OpenAI's text-generation AI model, capable of understanding text, images, and audio through a single neural network. GPT 4o release date was May 2024 — it succeeded GPT-4, as the best AI model at the time.
For many users, GPT 4o quickly became their favourite model thanks to its natural and empathetic responses, high accuracy and direct tone. Since its release, the GPT-4 generation has been phased out in favour of the more technically accurate GPT-5. However, many people still favour models ending in '4'.
Built on OpenAI's transformer architecture, GPT-4o understands context, generates human-like text, and can understand multiple types of media at the same time. It became a crowd favorite for its balance of speed, accuracy, and subjectively likable tone of voice
GPT 4o features
GPT-4o natively supports voice-to-voice interaction and can process any combination of text, audio, image, and video inputs while generating text, audio, and image outputs.
GPT-4o is multilingual, supporting conversations in over 50 languages.
One of GPT-4's most significant advances is its ability to generate text 50% faster at lower API costs, compared to other models in the same generation. Despite this increase in speed, performance in the English language has not degraded.
This OpenAI AI model has a context window of 128k tokens and a knowledge cutoff date of October 2023.
In terms of raw power, as measured by benchmarks, it achieved a score of 88.7 on MMLU, beating its direct predecessor — GPT-4, which had a score of 86.5.
GPT 4o vs o1
GPT 4o is optimised for speed as a general-purpose chatbot, while the o1 model, released after GPT-4o, was designed for complex tasks. As a deep reasoning model, it had a much longer response time but delivered better results for coding at the time. However, due to its high cost, the o1 model never became popular and has since been discontinued. Its most recent direct counterpart is GPT 5.2 Pro, which is available to GPT Pro subscribers and via the API.
GPT 4o Mini
GPT 4o Mini is a smaller, faster and more cost-efficient version of GPT-4, which, at the time of its release, was OpenAI's flagship model. The 4o mini is optimised for everyday tasks and offers balanced performance, whereas GPT-4o consumed usage limits faster, but was more accurate and powerful.
More AI Models by OpenAI
GPT-4o is part of OpenAI's broader ecosystem of GPT models, which includes GPT-5.2 — OpenAI's latest andmost advanced model.
