In a conversation with German news website Heise, Microsoft Germany’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andreas Braun said, “We will introduce GPT-4 next week … we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities — for example videos.”

A multimodal language model can source information from a number of sources meaning that the latest developments based on GPT-4 could have the ability to reply to user’s queries in the form of images, music and video.

What do we know so far about GPT-4?

Apart from GPT-4’s multimodal abilities, it could also be successful in solving ChatGPT’s problem of responding slowly to user-generated queries. The next-generation language model is expected to give out answers much more quickly and in a more human-like manner.

Reportedly, OpenAI could also be working on a mobile app powered by GPT-4. Notably, ChatGPT is a web-based language model and does not have a mobile app yet.

While both Microsoft and OpenAI are tight-lipped about integrating GPT-4 into Bing search (possibly due to the recent controversies surrounding the search assistant), it is highly likely that GPT-4 will be used in Bing chat.

While ChatGPT is built on top of GPT-3.5, Microsoft’s Bing search uses GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 along with proprietary tech called Prometheus to churn out answers quickly while making use of real-time information.

ChatGPT is a chatbot that answers questions in a human-like making use of its artificial neural networks. The viral chatbot was released by San Francisco-based OpenAI in November 2022 and has since taken the world by storm. It recently crossed the landmark of 100 million active monthly users just 2 months after its launch, while it took popular social media apps Tik Tok and Instagram close to 9 months and 2½ years respectively to cross the prestigious figure.