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The AI Buffet: Why One Supermodel Might Rule the Menu, But Specialty Dishes Still Sell Two weeks ago, OpenAI made another bold move: it replaced DALL·E 3 with a native 4o Image Generation model, built directly into ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2025). This shift wasn’t just a backend tweak — it marked the arrival of a more capable, photorealistic, and context-aware image generator that functions seamlessly inside a chat conversation. To rewind briefly: OpenAI had launched GPT-4o on May 13, 2024, integrating text, image, and code generation into a single chatbox (OpenAI, 2024). While this multimodal model supported image generation, it was powered by DALL·E 3. ...

The AI world has always been unusual, but starting in early 2025, it became increasingly so. LLM developers began releasing and updating models at unprecedented paces, while more giants and startups joined the AI rush—from foundational generative models (text, image, audio, video) to specific applications. It’s a new kind of gold rush, but fueled by GPUs and transformer architectures. On February 1st, DeepSeek released its open-source model DeepSeek R1, quickly recognized for rivaling—or even exceeding—the reasoning power of ChatGPT-o1. The impact was immediate. Just days later, a screenshot from Reddit showed Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, admitting: ...

OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4 variant that natively supports text, vision, and audio input/output with faster performance and improved reasoning.

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An advanced, text-only language model from OpenAI with GPT-4-level capabilities, optimized for performance, efficiency, and competitive benchmarks.

A multilingual speech recognition and translation model by OpenAI, supporting 100+ languages with improved robustness and low-latency transcription.