Last week, millions of ChatGPT fans and I counted down the minutes for the long-awaited unveiling of OpenAI’s latest not-so-super-secret new release, GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”). The livestream started with a vision of omni-input, real-time, interactive generative artificial intelligence. GPT-4o touted a 232-millisecond response time, an eye-watering 50% cost reduction, functionality in many more languages, and was available to even free users and via API.

To say I was psyched is an understatement!