“GPT-4 Is Coming next Week—And It Will Be Multimodal, Says Microsoft Germany”, 2023-03-09 ():
[Journalist: ‘I can confirm what I heard and saw during the AI kickoff event. Dr Holger Kenn from Microsoft Germany contacted me afterward with a “thanks”.’] The release of GPT-4 is imminent, as Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun mentioned at an AI kickoff event on 9 March 2023.
GPT-4 is coming next week: at an ~1-hour hybrid information event entitled “AI in Focus—Digital Kickoff” on 9 March 2023, 4 Microsoft Germany employees presented Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT series as a disruptive force for companies and their Azure-OpenAI offering in detail. The kickoff event took place in the German language, news outlet Heise was present. Rather casually, Andreas Braun, CTO Microsoft Germany and Lead Data & AI STU, mentioned what he said was the imminent release of GPT-4. The fact that Microsoft is fine-tuning multimodality with OpenAI should no longer have been a secret since the release of Kosmos-1 at the beginning of March.
“We will introduce GPT-4 next week, there we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities—for example videos”, Braun said. The CTO called LLM a “game changer” because they teach machines to understand natural language, which then understand in a statistical way what was previously only readable and understandable by humans. In the meantime, the technology has come so far that it basically “works in all languages”: You can ask a question in German and get an answer in Italian. With multimodality, Microsoft(-OpenAI) will “make the models comprehensive”.