OpenAI's Offerings
OpenAI provides a variety of AI services that can enhance your toolkit for developing multimodal AI apps. You’ll now explore their key offerings, categorized by input and output type.
Text Completion (GPT-4o)
GPT-4o, or “GPT-4 omni”, is OpenAI’s latest flagship model. It’s a multimodal AI capable of both processing and generating text. Key features include:
- A 128,000-token context window
- 2 times faster text generation and 50 percent cost reduction compared to GPT-4 Turbo (the previous model)
- Intelligence on par with GPT-4 Turbo, but with greater efficiency
Image Analysis (GPT-4 Vision)
GPT-4 Vision enables the model to understand and analyze images. Although it’s not technically a separate model from GPT-4o, GPT-4o can process both text and images. However, because this feature is available through a separate API endpoint, you treat them as distinct. Key features include:
- Ability to process single or multiple image inputs
- Answer questions about image content
- Understand relationships between objects in images
- Operate in low- or high-fidelity modes for varying levels of detail
Image Generation and Editing (DALL-E 2 & 3)
DALL-E is OpenAI’s text-to-image generation model. DALL-E 3 is the latest version, though image-editing capabilities are available only in DALL-E 2. Key features include:
- DALL-E 3 offers significantly improved accuracy and detail compared to DALL-E 2.
- It can generate images from complex, nuanced text descriptions.
- Users have full rights to use, sell, or merchandise the generated images.
Speech Recognition (Whisper)
Whisper is an advanced speech recognition (ASR) system. Key features include:
- Trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data
- Robust performance with accents, background noise, and technical language
- Capable of transcription in multiple languages and translation to English
Video Generation (Sora)
Sora is OpenAI’s text-to-video model, currently under development. Although it isn’t available for use yet, it’s worth keeping an eye on for future projects. Key features include:
- Ability to generate videos up to a minute long
- Maintains visual quality and adherence to user prompts
- Capable of creating complex scenes with multiple characters and precise details