The maker of ChatGPT showed off some new upgrades during this week's OpenAI Spring update. 

Between a more human-like, natural-sounding voice and Google's lens-esque vision capabilities, many of the impressive features are revealed in a surprisingly fast series of live demos.

This week we're looking at some of the features announced by OpenAI as a lot is going on, including the debut of the new iPad Pro2024 and iPad Air2024. You may have missed it. Read on to discover the 5 biggest updates to ChatGPT that you may have missed.

There is a new model in the town, which OpenAI calls GPT-4o.This is not ChatGPT-5, but a significant update to the existing model of OpenAI.

During the OpenAI Spring Update, CTO Mira Murati stated that the GPT-4o model can be inferred across speech, text, and vision. This omnimodel is considered to be much faster and more efficient than the current ChatGPT-4.

Based on some of the live demos, the system certainly seemed to be moving at speed, especially in conversational voice mode, but more about it below.

GPT-4o is not locked behind the月額20 monthly Premium plus service. In fact, OpenAI makes GPT-4o available to all users.

It provides free users with other tools as well as the native tools and updates that GPT-4o is bringing to the table. These include access to a custom chatbot and a ChatGPT store with user-created models and tools.

Free users also have access to advanced data analysis tools, vision (or image analysis), and memory, and ChatGPT can remember previous conversations.

You may wonder, what are paid users getting now? According to OpenAI, paid users will continue to get up to 5 times the capacity and queries that free users do.

The most interesting part of the OpenAI live demo was a vocal conversation with ChatGPT.

The new voice assistant will be real-time, including the ability to let you interrupt the assistant and change the tone and make it react to the user's emotions.

During the live demo, the OpenAI presenter asked the voice assistant to make a bedtime story. Throughout the demonstration, they had demonstrated the ability to interrupt it and sound it not only natural, but dramatic and emotional. They also had voices robotic sounds, singing and telling stories with more intensity.

It was all very impressive.

While many of the voice assistant features displayed were impressive, the live translation tool really seemed to take it a notch.

During the demonstration, Murati spoke to the voice assistant in Italian. Mark Chen asked his assistant to translate from English to Italian and from Italian to English. It seemed to work pretty well. This may be a real boon for travelers.

ChatGPT has acquired a new native vision feature similar to Google Lens. Basically, this feature allows ChatGPT to "see" using the phone's camera.

The demo team asked ChatGPT to show the equation and help solve the problem. AI voice assistant walked through math problems without giving answers.

It also seemed to be possible to see the changes made.

When combined with the new desktop app, vision also seems to include the ability to view the desktop. In one demo, ChatGPT was also able to view and analyze the code and explain potential problems and what the code should do.

Chatting with a GPT-4o model can be the perfect tutor.

There were more updates and tools mentioned during the OpenAI Spring Update like desktop apps available. There was also face detection and emotional perception.

Please note that not all features are still available as of this writing. The feature is gradually starting up over the next few weeks, but we don't know when certain features will be available.

For example, voice assistants do not appear to be available. We tested it and it's still an old version for now.

The new model will require some practical testing and we are already starting to see what it can do at our end. Check back with us as we put the GPT-4o through the pace.