On May 13, OpenAI held its Spring update event, at which the company announced its newest model, GPT-4o, an AI model with a GPT-4 level of intelligence. The “o” in GPT-4o means omnimodal capabilities due to its ability to process and integrate text, vision, and audio. The event was overall good and properly highlighted everything important and relevant, including the major announcement of the official ChatGPT desktop app for Mac.
Before we elaborate on the new ChatGPT Mac desktop app, here are a few worth mentioning:
- The event started and ended with positivity, and the first big news was that ChatGPT has over 100 million users worldwide.
- The most exciting announcement was the introduction of its new model, GPT-4o. This new model is accessible to all. It will be available for free to all ChatGPT users.
- The new GPT-4o can better understand and respond to voice commands, allowing you to interrupt between the responses to change the topic or tone or get a better response output.
- The new and improved vision capability can see what’s going around you and respond to you accordingly, and even help you solve complex questions.
- The new model can even assist you with coding in real-time just by using the desktop app by highlighting and pressing cmd + C. But for now, this is only available on the Macs.
- Lastly, the new model’s speech translation ability was one of its highlights because of its speed and lack of awkward lags in between.
The most shocking and interesting news was the ChatGPT desktop application for Macs. It surprised a few people as Microsoft had invested over $13 billion in OpenAI. Yet, OpenAI came up with the Mac application first, possibly due to the highly rumored Apple and OpenAI deal, which is said to be close to being a done deal.
As suggested, the Mac application is only available to macOS users and requires macOS 14.0 or later. Although the news is big, not everyone is happy because, as stated before, investors, like Microsoft, expressed disappointment that the first desktop app release was for macOS and not Windows. However, OpenAI has assured that they plan to launch a Windows version later this year, as most of their users are Windows users.
The ChatGPT app can also live and stay pinned in your taskbar for quick and easy access.
The Mac application can monitor your screen and appear on any opened tab.
You can easily share any picture or screenshot with it using the drag-and-drop option.
Within seconds, you will receive a response related to the image.
Finally, the app can communicate with you like an assistant and present you with appropriate answers to your queries.
In Conclusion:
The OpenAI Spring update event was quite eventful and exciting. The introduction of the new GPT-4o model with its omnimodal capabilities is particularly intriguing. Additionally, the ChatGPT desktop app announcement for Mac is a significant development. Some are disappointed by the lack of a Windows version, but that will not last long. Overall, it’s clear that OpenAI is making impressive steps in AI technology. Now we wait and hope to get GPT-5 later this year!
Nishant, the Product Growth Manager at Marktechpost, is interested in learning about artificial intelligence (AI), what it can do, and its development. His passion for trying something new and giving it a creative twist helps him intersect marketing with tech. He is assisting the company in leading toward growth and market recognition.
