OpenAI has announced the release of GPT-4o, an update to its GPT-4 language model. This new model, freely available to all users, will enhance ChatGPT's capabilities, enabling real-time spoken conversations, interaction via text and vision, and memory for learning from previous conversations. In addition, GPT-4o can perform real-time translation and detect emotions.

The update comes just ahead of important events from Google and Apple, and strengthens competition in the field of artificial intelligence. GPT-4o will also offer a desktop application and will be available to developers who want to create custom chatbots. Free users will have a limited number of interactions before reverting to the GPT-3.5 model, while paid users will have unlimited access to the new model. The news underscores OpenAI's continued effort to stay at the forefront of the AI technology race.