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Hands-On With GPT-4.5, OpenAI’s Most Powerful Model Yet


The release of OpenAI’s biggest model ever exposes the tension between building artificial general intelligence and making ChatGPT into a truly useful utility.

OpenAI has steadily grown its number of enterprise contracts, so the company could be expected to put out tentpole releases with baked-in, practical applications, especially inside the most expensive and powerful version of its chatbot. However, GPT-4.5 is more aligned with the output from an academic research group pouring everything they have into chasing artificial general intelligence, a theoretical version of the algorithm that’s deft enough to replace white-collar workers and practically God-like in its ability to process information. Switching gears, I asked why the price of a dozen eggs is rising even higher during the beginning of Trump’s presidency than it was under Biden, primarily to see which model would be more successful at analyzing web articles about a political topic.

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