🗣️ Major ChatGPT Update

🗣️ Major ChatGPT Update

The new GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) can reason across audio, vision, and text in real-time. The model will be free for all ChatGPT users.

It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, which is similar to human response time in a conversation.

It is better at vision and audio understanding compared to existing models. It matches GPT-4 Turbo performance on text in English and code, with significant improvement on text in non-English languages, while also being much faster and 50% cheaper in the API. Read more.

🇬🇧 4-Day Work Week Works in U.K.

A large amount of companies in the U.K. took part in the world’s biggest trial of a four-day work week last year, and more than half have made the change permanent. Employees involved reported better physical and mental health. Read more.

🌎 Melinda French Gates Resigned

Melinda French Gates, one of the world’s preeminent philanthropists, said Monday she would resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that she has helped lead since 2000.

The foundation has made nearly $78 billion worth of grant payments in the nearly 25 years since its founding. Read more.

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