OpenAI is releasing a mini model aimed at developers. The new model, known as GPT-4o mini, will enable developers to create AI-powered apps and services for 60% less cost. For ChatGPT’s free users, GPT-3.5 Turbo, OpenAI’s smallest model to date, will be replaced by GPT-4o mini.
When it comes to creating AI-powered apps, developers enjoy more flexibility with smaller versions of flagship models. Companies such as Anthropic and Google often release scaled-down, less sophisticated versions of their models. This way, larger models can handle more complex work while smaller ones work well for basic, high-volume tasks.
Currently, GPT-4o mini can process text and images, but in the future, it will also be able to process other kinds of content, such as audio and video.
“I think GPT-4o Mini really gets at the OpenAI mission of making AI more broadly accessible to people. If we want AI to benefit every corner of the world, every industry, every application, we have to make AI much more affordable,” The API platform product lead, Olivier Godement, told The Verge.
The objective is to give developers access to a low-cost, lightweight platform so they can produce all the tools and applications they couldn’t afford to make with a larger, higher-end model like GPT-4. A lot of developers would use Gemini 1.5 Flash or Claude 3 Haiku instead of shelling out the staggering compute costs needed to run one of the most powerful models.
Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) is an industry benchmark that consists of 16,000 multiple-choice questions covering 57 academic subjects. According to OpenAI, GPT-4o mini scored 82 percent on this benchmark. That’s higher than GPT-3.5 Turbo, which scored only 70 percent, but slightly lower than GPT-4o, which scored 88.7 percent.
Although AI specialists have cautioned against depending solely on these benchmarks to gauge the intelligence of AI systems, they are currently the only means of assessing the effectiveness of large language models.
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