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A Microsoft executive said that the new model of OpenAI will be released this week, according to a German news agency.
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GPT-4 will be able to convert text to video, a feature already found in Google and Meta AIs.
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Andreas Braun, CTO of Microsoft’s German business, commented on Thursday.
OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-4 upgrade will allow users to convert text to video, Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun said at an AI event last Thursday, as reported by German publication Heise. Microsoft is a leading investor in OpenAI, pumping billions of dollars into the company.
Braun added that the more powerful AI will be unveiled this week, putting an end to speculation about its release. “We will present GPT-4 next week, where we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different options – for example videos,” Braun told Heise.
Excitement over the potential of OpenAI’s new model has been growing in Silicon Valley, but CEO Sam Altman told venture capital newsletter StrictlyVC, “People are begging to be disappointed, and they will be.”
OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, also said, “I think less hype would be good,” but added that it could “broaden the possibilities,” according to FastCompany.
Meta and Google have already introduced text-to-video capabilities into their own AI, but it’s a step up from the hugely popular ChatGPT, which has so far been limited to verbal outputs.
Microsoft has reportedly invested more than $10 billion in OpenAI, with the partnership key to powering its own Bing chatbot. While the companies say Bing is using the same GPT 3.5 model currently used by OpenAI’s branded chatbot, the New York Times reports that it’s “very likely” to already be using GPT-4.
Since its launch last November, ChatGPT has gained over 100 million users – surpassing the time it took TikTok to reach the same milestone by seven months.
But OpenAI’s management has been criticized by Elon Musk, who co-founded the company before stepping down from the board in 2018.
“OpenAI was created as open source (which is why I called it ‘Open’ AI), as a non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it’s become a closed-source company with maximum profit that effectively controlled by Microsoft,” he tweeted Last month.
Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comments sent outside US business hours.
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