GPT-4 is here, and metaverse weddings

OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, a great next-gen language model that would have been in development for much of the last year. The company’s latest surprise hit, ChatGPT, was always going to be a tough act to follow, but OpenAI has made GPT-4 even bigger and better.

Still, how much bigger it is and why it’s better, OpenAI won’t say. GPT-4 is the most secretive version the company has ever released, marking its transition from a nonprofit lab to a for-profit technology company.

What we do know is that GPT-4 is a large multimodal language model, meaning it can respond to both text and images. Read the full story.

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These People Just Got Married In The Taco Bell Metaverse

Last month, Sheel Mohnot and Amruta Godbole got married. It was no ordinary marriage, however. It was hosted on Decentraland, a virtual platform, and sponsored by Taco Bell.

Mohnot is a huge Taco Bell fan, so they’ve launched a contest to have the company pay for the technical aspects of a virtual wedding — the avatars, production, etc. They won. In return, he plastered his brand everywhere.