GPT-4 Turbo for advanced tasks with large context
Use GPT-4 Turbo for complex instructions, specific formats, and large documents up to April 2023.
GPT-4 Turbo (gpt-4-1106-preview)
Tasks requiring careful instruction following, specific format generation (e.g., XML), and processing large amounts of text.
It has a 128k context window, knowledge up to April 2023, improved instruction following, and supports JSON mode.
November 2023
GPT-4 Turbo is recommended for tasks needing precise instruction following, generating specific formats like XML, or processing large texts. Its 128k context window and updated knowledge base make it suitable for complex applications.
It offers a significantly larger context window (128k tokens), knowledge of world events up to April 2023, and improved performance on instruction-following tasks.
For simpler tasks where cost is a major factor and the larger context or advanced instruction following is not needed.
- New models and developer products announced at DevDay ↗OpenAI News · OpenAI News · Nov 6, 2023 · paraphrased
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- New models and developer products announced at DevDayOpenAI · OpenAI News · Nov 6, 2023
The Playbook: reusable how-tos, prompts, configs and tips pulled out of the news.
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Questions people ask
- Which AI tools does this work with?
- The sources used it with ChatGPT.
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- OpenAI News (OpenAI News). Subvolts collected, normalized and credited it; the link above opens the original.