GPT-4V
OpenAI · 2023-09
OpenAI's first vision model integrating image understanding into conversational AI.
Quick Facts
Parameters
Estimated ~1.76 trillion (GPT-4 base)
Context Window
128K tokens
Modalities
text, image
Open Source
No
Pricing
API $10.00/1M input tokens (vision)
Released
2023-09
Developer
OpenAI
About
GPT-4V (Vision) is OpenAI's pioneering multimodal model that added image understanding capabilities to GPT-4. It can analyze photos, screenshots, documents, and diagrams, answering questions about visual content with detailed reasoning. GPT-4V introduced capabilities like reading handwritten text, identifying objects and scenes, analyzing charts and graphs, and providing contextual descriptions of images. As the foundation for later multimodal models, GPT-4V paved the way for GPT-4o and GPT-5's integrated vision capabilities.
Strengths
- +Pioneering vision-language understanding
- +Accurate image description and analysis
- +Handles diverse visual inputs (photos, diagrams, text)
- +Strong reasoning about visual content
Weaknesses
- −Superseded by GPT-4o's integrated capabilities
- −Separate model from main GPT-4 (not unified)
- −Higher cost than newer multimodal models
- −No audio or video understanding
Best For
Image analysis and description tasks
Document and diagram understanding
Visual Q&A and reasoning
OCR and handwriting recognition
Pricing
API
$10.00/1M input tokens
- Vision understanding
- 128K context
- Text and image input
Technical Specs
Parameters
Estimated ~1.76 trillion (GPT-4 base)
Context Window
128K tokens
Modalities
text, image
Languages
Open Source
No
Developer
OpenAI
Released: 2023-09
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