CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has announced the launch of GPT-4 Turbo, an enhanced version of ChatGPT that has training data and up-to-date knowledge of global events. This tool can accommodate more than 300 pages of text and offers a three times lower price for tokens input and output.

• Sam Altman announced on Sunday that a new version of GPT-4 Turbo is available.
• GPT-4 Turbo contains training data and up-to-date knowledge of world events up to April 2023.
• Altman published a CNBC article at the weekend about Microsoft’s restriction of its employees’ access to ChatGPT and other AI tools due to concerns about data security and third-party risk.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced on Sunday that a new version of GPT-4 Turbo is now available on ChatGPT and encouraged users to test what he believes is an improved version. GPT-4 Turbo is the next iteration of GPT-4, with training data and up-to-date knowledge of global events up to April 2023. With a 128-kilowatt context window, it can hold the equivalent of more than 300 pages of text in a single response.

In a post on OpenAI of 6 November, it was reported that the performance of ChatGPT has also been optimised, allowing GPT-4 Turbo to be offered at 3 times lower price for input tokens and 2 times lower price for output tokens, compared to GPT-4.

Altman published an article at the weekend about Microsoft’s restriction of its employees’ access to ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools due to concerns about data security and third-party risk. On Platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Altman dismissed reports that OpenAI was preventing its employees from using Microsoft 365, describing the accusations as completely unfounded. Later, on 9 November, Microsoft admitted in a CNBC article that it had made a mistake in restricting access to ChatGPT, and that this had now been rectified.

While Big Tech companies compete for dominance in the new industry, Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, using the potential of this startup in the field of artificial intelligence to incorporate new features into its services.

Additionally, Altman took a dismissive approach to Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk’s recently unveiled AI chatbot called Grok, which aims to inject humour into its responses. Musk was previously an enthusiast of OpenAI, but left the company in 2018 and has since criticised it several times. This year, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, announced the launch.