OpenAI unveils a more powerful version of ChatGPT

After weeks of wild speculation, the American company OpenAI unveiled its new artificial intelligence capable of generating texts on demand on Tuesday evening: GPT-4. It succeeds GPT-3.5, the language model on which the essential conversational robot was based until now. ChatGPTwhich has become a global phenomenon since it went live in November.

To test the capabilities of GPT-4, you must subscribe to the ChatGPT Plus service ($20 per month). Bing Chat, Microsoft’s conversational search engine assistant, is also partly based on GPT-4. The IT group has invested 10 billion dollars in OpenAI, and launched a race for innovation in generative artificial intelligence in which Google and Meta are participating.

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, warned in January that “all the rumors around GPT-4 capabilities are ridiculous” and that people who expect too much “will inevitably be disappointed” by the end result…