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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern UK technology editor

OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model offers promise of improved smartphone assistants

Someone holding a phone in their left hand, with a message on the screen reading: 'Go ahead, I'm listening …'
A link-up between Apple and Google or OpenAI would probably fall short of fully replacing Siri with ChatGPT. Photograph: Wachirawit Iemlerkchai/Alamy

In the year and a half since the launch of ChatGPT, one nagging question has only got more pressing: if AI can do this, why is my phone’s assistant still so bad?

On Monday, the gulf grew larger still, as OpenAI announced a new model called GPT-4o – the ‘o’ stands for Omni – which gives the chatbot new abilities to understand and create audio, video, and still images.

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