• by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, May 13, 2024

Microsoft announced Monday that it has integrated OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model into Azure AI. 

The services help developers and organizations to rapidly create intelligent applications with prebuilt and customizable APIs and models. 

The "o" stands for "omni," referring to the model's ability to handle text, speech, and video. 

Open AI released its latest GPT-4o model today. This technology offers another level to search and intelligence. 

OpenAI today demonstrated real-time interactions with the voice assistant, including faster responses, real-time conversations, visual interactions, and the ability to interrupt the AI assistant. The model is truly conversational in the sense that the user can interrupt the chat session and steer the conversation in another direction without the model getting lost in the conversation. 

Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform that allows businesses to build, run and manage applications across multiple clouds, on premises and at the edge of a network.

GPT-4o will offer a shift in how AI models interact with multimodal inputs. By seamlessly combining text, images, and audio, GPT-4o provides a richer, more engaging user experience.

The company says it can improve customer services by integrating diverse data inputs for more dynamic and comprehensive customer support interactions.

It offers advanced analytics to process and analyze different types of data to enhance decision-making and uncover deeper insights. And, improvement content by tapping into capabilities to create engaging and diverse content formats, catering to a broad range of consumer preferences.

OpenAI's previous model, GPT-4 Turbo, was trained on a combination of images and text and could analyze both to accomplish tasks such as extracting text from images or even describing the content of those images. But GPT-4o adds speech.

GPT-4o is multilingual, with enhanced performance in about 50 languages.