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OpenAI GPT-4o is now rolling out — here's how to get access

Ryan Morrison

Tom’s Guide

May 15, 2024

OpenAI's ChatGPT just got a major upgrade thanks to the new GPT-4o model, also known as Omni. This is a true multimodal AI capable of natively understanding text, image, video and audio with ease. It is also much faster and eventually will be able to talk back to you.

Right now its main benefit is in bringing massive reasoning, processing and natural language capabilities to the free version of ChatGPT for the first time. As part of the Spring Update announcement the company said it wanted to make the best AI widely accessible.

The rollout isn’t happening instantly, becoming available gradually in batches. Check out which features are available now, and which are coming soon. Accessing the new model is very straightforward once it has been applied to your account. Here’s how.