The AI Buffet: Why One Supermodel Might Rule the Menu, But Specialty Dishes Still Sell
TL;DR for operators The AI market is not choosing between “one model to rule them all” and “a thousand specialist flowers blooming politely in a procurement spreadsheet.” It is choosing by workload. GPT-4o’s native image generation matters because it folds visual production into the same conversational workspace where users already brainstorm, rewrite, code, and revise. That is not just a model upgrade. It is a distribution upgrade. The GPT-4o system card describes an omni model trained across text, vision, and audio, with stronger multimodal capability and lower API cost than GPT-4 Turbo in OpenAI’s own framing.1 OpenAI’s March 2025 image-generation release then pushed that logic into visual work: generate, critique, revise, and regenerate without leaving the chat.2 ...