GPT-4o (2024-05-13)

GPT-4o (May 2024 release) is OpenAI's multimodal large language model that processes text and images with a 128K token context window.

Strengths

Handles both text and image inputs with broad reasoning capabilities across complex tasks.

Best for

General-purpose chat, analysis, and creative work where you need a capable multimodal model in real-time API form.

Limitations

Superseded by later GPT-4o releases (August and November 2024) that offer improvements; for reasoning-heavy workloads, o1 is a more specialized alternative.