Perhaps Sam Altman’s strawberry picture was a secret message after all, as roughly a week after the OpenAI CEO posted it on social media the company has confirmed that ChatGPT got a surprise update last week that it hadn’t told anyone about.
Making this known on social media, an official ChatGPT account revealed that “there's a new GPT-4o model out in ChatGPT,” adding in a follow-up that this isn't a new model like a GPT-5 upgrade, just an improvement to the existing GPT-4o model.
