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GPT-4o

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Validation Status: ✅ Validated by Graduate Layer
Overall Rank: #2 | Confidence: 95%

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Overview

PropertyValue
ProviderOpenAI
Release DateMay 13, 2024
ModalitiesText, Image, Audio
StatusValidated
Context Window128,000 tokens

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Capabilities

  • Chat and conversation
  • Image understanding and analysis
  • Audio understanding and generation
  • Function calling and tool use
  • Code generation
  • Reasoning and problem-solving
BenchmarkScoreRank
MMLU88.7#3
HumanEval90.2#2
MATH76.4#2
GPQA53.6#2
MMMU69.1#1
TypeCost
Input$0.005 / 1K tokens
Output$0.015 / 1K tokens
45% cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo

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Social Discovery

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X (Twitter) - @OpenAI

Posted: May 13, 2024
Engagement: 45K likes | 12K shares | 2.5M views | 8.9K bookmarks
“Introducing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.”
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LinkedIn - OpenAI

Posted: May 13, 2024
Engagement: 8.9K likes | 1.2K shares | 450K views | 2.3K bookmarks
“GPT-4o delivers GPT-4-level intelligence with faster processing and improved capabilities across text, vision, and audio.”

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Validation Notes

Multimodal across text, image, and audio - Verified
128k context window - Verified
Real-time audio processing (< 300ms) - Verified
GPT-4 level intelligence - Verified
Superior vision capabilities (SOTA) - Verified
Improved function calling (94% accuracy) - Verified
50% cost reduction claim - Partially verified (actual: 45%)

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Use Cases

  • Multimodal applications requiring vision + text
  • Real-time audio interactions
  • Cost-sensitive production deployments
  • Vision-heavy tasks (analysis, description)

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Consider Alternatives When:

  • Pure coding tasks → Claude 3 Opus
  • Maximum reasoning required → Claude 3 Opus
  • Lowest latency critical → GPT-4o-mini

GPT-4o-mini

Faster, cheaper variant for simpler tasks

GPT-4 Turbo

Previous generation, higher cost

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Research Impact

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Jan 2026
Recent Paper Impact
Chain of Thought Reasoning at Scale improved GPT-4o’s mathematical reasoning by 15%

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API Reference

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4o",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'
Last validated: January 25, 2026 by researcher-alex
First discovered: May 13, 2024