OpenAI’s Newest Model: GPT-4 Turbo and Custom GPTs Announced

OpenAI has once again pushed the boundaries of what’s possible with its latest innovation. Say hello to GPT-4 Turbo, the enhanced iteration of the already challenging GPT-4. OpenAI’s dedication to advancement and innovation shines through in this latest release, and it brings with it a host of exciting features that demand our attention. In this article, we’ll delve into the intricacies of GPT-4 Turbo and explore what sets it apart from its predecessors, making it a game-changer in the field of natural language processing.

Read it in Short

• Introducing the enhanced GPT-4 Turbo, a versatile AI model that offers increased capabilities while reducing costs, featuring an impressive 128K context window for a deeper understanding of context.
• OpenAI introduces a user-friendly Assistant API, empowering developers to create their own AI applications with specific objectives, designed to assist and benefit users. These applications, referred to as models and tools, mark a significant step forward in AI development.
• OpenAI’s platform has expanded its horizons to include cutting-edge multimodal functionalities, encompassing vision-based features, the creative image generation prowess of DALL·E 3, and advanced text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, offering a more immersive and comprehensive AI experience.

What is GPT-4 Turbo by OpenAI

GPT Turbo, an enhanced version of GPT-4, is a cutting-edge AI model with a significantly expanded context window, providing knowledge of global events up to April 2023. OpenAI offers an API for building AI assistants and allows customization of ChatGPT, although these features may not be accessible to all users at the moment. A notable highlight is the release of GPT-4 Turbo, a highly potent variant that offers improved efficiency and helps in understanding worldwide developments. GPT-4 Turbo comes with an impressive 128k context window, enabling it to analyze over 300 pages of text simultaneously, and it’s more cost-effective with input tokens being three times cheaper and exit tokens being twice as economical as in GPT-4. This upgraded model is currently available for all paid developers during its preview phase. Furthermore, OpenAI has streamlined function calls, allowing more detailed and precise commands that involve multiple functions in a single message. The introduction of JSON mode is another significant enhancement, ensuring the generation of valid JSON outputs, particularly beneficial for tasks requiring specific formats.

What are the rate limits of GPT-4 Turbo?

The usage limits for GPT-4 Turbo are set at 20 requests per minute and 100 requests per day. It’s important to note that as this model is currently in a preview phase, there won’t be any adjustments or increases to these rate limits for GPT-4 Turbo at this moment.

Who can access GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo is accessible to paying developers who can access it by passing the GPT-4-1106-preview in the API. OpenAI has also disclosed its intention to launch a stable, production-ready model in the upcoming weeks, making this advanced AI model more widely available.

What are the features of GPT-4 Turbo?

Function Calling Updates

You can tell models about the app or external API functions, and the models will pick a JSON object with inputs to call those functions. Among the changes, one is the ability to call more than one function in a single message. With the model, users only have to make one trip to say, “Open the car window and turn off the air conditioning.” The accuracy of calling functions is also getting better: The function values that GPT-4 Turbo returns are more accurate.

Improved instruction following and JSON mode

GPT-4 Turbo outperforms our earlier models in tasks that need explicit direction, such as creating specific formats (“always respond in XML”). It also supports our new JSON mode, ensuring the model returns proper JSON. The new API parameter response_format lets the model confine its output to a syntactically correct JSON object. Developers can generate JSON in Chat Completions API without function calling using JSON mode.

Reproducible outputs and log probabilities

Since the model returns reliable completions most of the time, the new seed parameter allows reproducible outputs. This beta functionality is handy for replaying debugging queries, building more detailed unit tests, and exercising more model behaviour control. OpenAI uses this capability for unit tests and finds it beneficial. We’re curious how developers will use it. Learn more.

Latest Knowledge

One significant benefit of GPT-4 Turbo is that it’s more in the know. While GPT-4’s knowledge is limited to what was happening up until September 2021, GPT-4 Turbo has been updated to include information up to April 2023. This means that GPT-4 Turbo is well-equipped to talk about and comprehend the most recent events, research, and facts, giving you access to the latest insights and developments.

Cost Less

As per OpenAI, GPT-4 Turbo not only comes with enhanced capabilities but also offers a more budget-friendly option for developers. When it comes to input, it’s priced at just $0.01 per 1,000 tokens, as opposed to the $0.03 charged for GPT-4. Additionally, output tokens cost $0.03 per 1,000 tokens. In summary, this newer model presents a significant cost advantage, being three times cheaper than its predecessors.

GPT-4 Turbo vs GPT-4

Name	GPT-4	GPT-4 Turbo
Created By	OpenAI	OpenAI
Provide Latest Data	September 2021	April 2023
Avaialble to	ChatGPT Plus Users	Preview Available to Developers
Prompts Input	Text/Images	Text/Images/Text to Speech
Context Window	8,192 tokens (GPT-4) 32,000 tokens (GPT-4-32K)	128,000 tokens

How to Use GPT-4 Turbo’s API

Step 1: Create an Account

Step 2: Verify your Email Address

Step 3: Log In chat.openai.com

Step 4: Use Free Trial Credit

Step 5: Generate your API Key

Step 6: GPT-4 Turbo is ready to Use

Note: Anyone with an OpenAI API account has access. The model can be accessed by passing gpt-4-1106-preview as the model name in the API.

How to Make First Request to GPT-4 Turbo

Step 1: Find your API key

If you followed the steps in the last part, you should already have this. It looks like a long list of random letters and numbers most of the time. Make sure it stays safe.

Step 2: Open up your terminal

If you want to try out curl, close your terminal.

Step 3: Type the word “curl”

Curl is a command-line tool for sending data.

• Change YOUR_API_KEY to your real API key.
• The JSON-formatted request body is given by the string that comes after -d. The “gpt-4-1106-preview” model (GPT-4 Turbo) and two messages are given. The first message sets up the assistant’s job, and the second message is for the user.

Step 4: Run the command

If you press “Enter,” you should see an answer from the API in the terminal window in no more than a few seconds.

What is the updated GPT 3.5 Turbo?

Along with GPT-4 Turbo, the company also launched a new version of GPT-3.5 Turbo that comes with a 16K context window. The new 3.5 Turbo has better support for following instructions, JSON mode, and running functions in parallel. By calling gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 in the API, developers can get to this new model. On December 11, applications that use the name gpt-3.5-turbo will be immediately updated to the new model. You can still get to older types until June 13, 2024, bypassing gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 in the API.

OpenAI also released the Assistants API, which is the first thing the company is doing to help developers make their apps more like chatbots.

With clear directions, extra knowledge, and the ability to call models and tools to do work, an assistant is a purpose-built AI that can do specific tasks. The new Assistants API adds new features like Code Interpreter and Retrieval, as well as function calls, which make it easier for users to make high-quality AI apps by taking care of a lot of the work that they used to have to do themselves.

What are Custom GPTs?

OpenAI launched a platform that lets people make their versions of ChatGPT. It brings the company closer to its goal of AGI (artificial general intelligence). That might sound a little familiar. That’s because it’s an updated version of ChatGPT plugins, but it can do more now.

Users can try out special GPTs that are already made, like ones for Canva that let you make your designs or Zapier that lets you automate tasks, or they can make their chatbot without knowing how to code. Since GPTs are made to understand natural words, all you need to make your own AI agent is an idea and some steps to follow.

OpenAI will open a GPT Store later this month. It will let users make and view their GPTs, kind of like an app store. That’s right, you can also make money from your GPT.

Today, ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users can view example GPTs. In the future, more users will be able to access them, too.

How to use Custom GPT?

Remember- To use this function, you need to be a ChatGPT Plus member. You turn on the function if you have a Plus account.

Step 1: Login to your account and open “Settings.”

Press the three stars next to your name and select “Settings and Beta.”

Step 2: Select “Custom Instructions” button

Turn on the option that lets you make your instructions by clicking the “Custom instructions” button.

Step 3: Choose the Instruction

Click the three dots once more and pick “Custom instructions.”

Step 4: Customize the instructions

Make your own set of directions

Who can access ChatGPT’s custom GPTs?

Custom GPT is only available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers.

Conclusion

In summary, OpenAI’s recent DevDay conference unveiled a series of transformative updates, with a strong focus on enhancing ChatGPT and its associated products. These changes encompass substantial cost reductions for developers, a game-changing addition in the form of the advanced language model GPT-4 Turbo, and the introduction of an API for creating AI assistants and customized ChatGPT versions. While these innovations are certainly exciting, it’s essential to note that not all ChatGPT users currently have access to these enhancements. OpenAI is actively working to ensure that a broader audience can benefit from these cutting-edge developments in the near future.