GPT-4 Turbo now underpins ChatGPT rival Copilot, upgrading the Microsoft AI assistant from the less-developed GPT-4 model, according to Microsoft’s CEO of Advertising and Web Services, Mikhail Parakhin.
The best part is that this upgrade is affecting the free tier, which means you needn’t pay a penny to access the expanded capabilities.
GPT-4 Turbo is an updated variant of GPT-4. As Mashable’s Cecily Mauran explained, it can process more text in a single prompt. Plus, it supports new vision, text-to-speech, and DALL-E features.
Curious about the three most significant upgrades coming to Microsoft Copilot? Stick around.
The issue with GPT-4 is that it has a knowledge base that cuts off at September 2021. Thankfully, GPT-4 Turbo’s knowledge base is less outdated.
GPT-4 Turbo updates Copilot’s knowledge base cut-off date from September 2021 to April 2023. As such, you should be able to ask it for more information that was once restricted for free users.
GPT-4 only has a context window of 8K. However, GPT-4 Turbo has a context window of 128K. To put this into perspective, as Mauran explained, Microsoft Copilot’s free tier can now process nearly 300 pages of text in a single prompt.
Last December, OpenAI acknowledged that GPT-4 Turbo suffered from “laziness.” In other words, the model offered lethargic responses to users’ prompts. As such, as we reported in January, OpenAI updated GPT-4 Turbo, announcing, “This model completes tasks like code generation more thoroughly than the previous preview model and is intended to reduce cases of ‘laziness’ where the model doesn’t complete a task.”
You may be wondering, why is Microsoft suddenly being so charitable? As XDA Developers pointed out, rumor has it that Microsoft is releasing a new GPT-4.5 Turbo model, which may be reserved for the paid tier, restricting non-paying users to GPT-4 Turbo.
Users can access GPT-4 Turbo in Microsoft Copilot’s creative or precise mode.
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