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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT-4: What You Need To Know
Although the latest version of the popular chat tool still isn’t 100% perfect, its creator says it performs at human levels on certain tasks.
OpenAI released the eagerly awaited update to ChatGPT – ChatGPT-4 – on Tuesday, with immediate access available on Microsoft’s Bing Chat and a developer waiting list.
ChatGPT-4 is “less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios”, OpenAI said in a recent blog post, but it represents “the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning”.
Since its launch last November, ChatGPT’s popularity has exploded, with traffic to the site hitting over one billion visits.
The new version of the tool is said to have “human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks”. ChatGPT-4 can pass the lawyer’s bar exam in the 90th percentile, for example, while by comparison, GPT-3.5’s score was in the bottom 10%.
Who Can Use ChatGPT-4?
Microsoft’s Bing Chat was co-developed with OpenAI and has run on GPT-4 for the last five weeks. GPT-4 is also available to OpenAI’s paying users, and developers can enter a waiting list to gain access to the platform.
What Are The Limitations Of ChatGPT-4?
“Despite its capabilities, GPT-4 has similar limitations as earlier GPT models,” OpenAI said, with the software still prone to producing bad advice, buggy code, or inaccurate information.
The company has cautioned against using the chat tool in “high-stakes contexts” and advises human review to check facts and add additional context. However, OpenAI claims a 40% improvement in error reduction.
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At I/O 2026, Sundar Pichai Concedes AI Must Deliver Real Value
Gemini 3.5, a personal agent called Spark, agentic shopping, and Android XR eyewear are all aimed at making AI feel useful, not just impressive.
Google’s annual I/O developer conference (I/O 2026) has recently become a status update on the same question: can the company turn its AI spending into products people use every day? This year, chief executive Sundar Pichai described Google as being in a phase of hyper progress, while conceding this is the part of the cycle where people want to see real value in the products they use on a day-to-day basis.
The strategy on display was to push agents — AI systems that act on a user’s behalf — into nearly every Google product at once. Search now has an “intelligent search box” that returns generated explainer videos alongside links. Gmail, Docs, YouTube and Maps are gaining their own agent layers, including a Docs Live feature that turns spoken instructions into drafted text with citations.
Two new models, Gemini 3.5 and a cheaper Gemini 3.5 Flash, arrived the same day. Google says 900 million people now use Gemini, and that more than 50 billion images have been generated with it. The pricing tier names are likely to confuse buyers: a new AI Ultra plan launches at $100 a month, while the older Gemini AI Ultra drops from $250 to $200.
The flashier announcements were Gemini Omni, a video generator pitched as a more realistic answer to OpenAI’s discontinued Sora 2, and Gemini Spark, a personal agent that handles recurring tasks across a user’s Google account. A new universal shopping cart lets agents complete purchases across multiple retailers from inside Google itself, placing the company between the merchant and the buyer, and also owning the checkout.
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Google also confirmed its Android XR eyewear, built with Samsung and frames from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. Audio-only glasses ship this autumn; a display-equipped version, which would superimpose live translations into the wearer’s field of view, is still in development. Both sets translate, however only the display version shows you the result.
What Pichai did not resolve is the bargain underneath all this. An agent is only useful to the degree it knows your calendar, your inbox, your shopping history and your physical surroundings. Google has now confirmed that, in time, the same context may carry advertising.
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