OpenAI GPT-4o is now rolling out — here's how to get access
OpenAI's ChatGPT just got a major upgrade thanks to the new GPT-4o model, also known as Omni. This is a true multimodal AI capable of natively understanding text, image, video and audio with ease. It is also much faster and eventually will be able to talk back to you. Right now its main benefit is in bringing massive reasoning, processing and natural language capabilities to the free version of ChatGPT for the first time.
Rollout Process
As part of the Spring Update announcement the company said it wanted to make the best AI widely accessible. The rollout isn’t happening instantly, becoming available gradually in batches — most recently being the availability of the ChatGPT macOS app. Check out which features are available now, and which are coming soon. Accessing the new model is very straightforward once it has been applied to your account.
How to Access GPT-4o
The address for ChatGPT has changed, moving from chat.openai.com to chatgpt.com, suggesting a significant commitment to AI as a product rather than an experiment. If you’ve got access to 4o on your account it will be available in the mobile app and online. Be wary of links though as it is being used by scammers as a way to get malware on to computers. For now the best option is to wait until you get an email or notification with a link from OpenAI.
Even if you do have a working link for the app, it won’t let you use it until access has been applied to your OpenAI account. You’ll get an error saying “You don’t have access.” For now what you’ll get when you sign in to ChatGPT is access to the chat version of GPT-4o, not any of the more advanced voice or video functionality as that is “gradually rolling out” over the coming weeks, starting with Plus and Team accounts.
Enhanced Capabilities
Free account users will notice the biggest change as GPT-4o is not only better than the 3.5 model previously available in ChatGPT but also a boost on GPT-4 itself. Users will also now be able to run code snippets, analyze images and text files and use custom GPT chatbots.
Using GPT-4o
On mobile, you still have access to ChatGPT Voice, but it is the version that was launched last year. If you have access to GPT-4o, you’ll now be able to send it files to analyze, ask questions about the content, and much more.
Conclusion
OpenAI has confirmed that the macOS app is being rolled out right now to a limited set of users, with broader access coming in the "next few weeks." For all users, the first step to accessing GPT-4o is to sign in to the platform. Visit the website or download the app, connect to your account, and start exploring the enhanced features and capabilities that GPT-4o has to offer.
