Microsoft announced a mysterious AI event for March 16th, and it looks like we're getting a big ChatGPT upgrade this week in the form of GPT-4, which comes with multimodal support. That might mean nothing to most people, given that ChatGPT stormed the tech landscape just three months ago, and we're still learning what it can do and how it can disrupt tech as we know it. A multimodal ChatGPT chatbot is a massive upgrade for AI that already provides human-like responses to your queries. Currently, ChatGPT only supports text input or one mode of interaction. GPT-4 will support text, audio, video, and images as input. That's what makes it multimodal, a feature that could significantly increase the AI's capabilities.

The new ChatGPT 4 will soon be introduced by Microsoft. This new AI is expected to be a better version of the original ChatGPT. Microsoft Germany's Chief Technology Officer Andreas Brean was the first one who revealed this AI innovation. "We will introduce GPT-4 next week ... we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities - for example, videos," said Braun during the recent event titled "AI in Focus - Digital Kickoff. According to Digital Trends' latest report, the new ChatGPT 4 will allow users to have AI-generated videos through text descriptions.

ChatGPT has been inescapable in recent months, and it looks like Microsoft is about to upgrade the AI tool with an update that could thrust it into the spotlight once again. That's because the company is set to launch GPT-4 as early as next week, and it will potentially let you create AI-generated videos from simple text prompts. The news was revealed by Andreas Braun, Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Germany, at a recent event titled "AI in Focus -- Digital Kickoff" (via Heise). According to Braun, "We will introduce GPT-4 next week … we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities -- for example videos." GPT-4 is the underlying large language model technology that powers apps like ChatGPT.

GPT-4 is coming next week: at an approximately one-hour hybrid information event entitled "AI in Focus - Digital Kickoff" on 9 March 2023, four Microsoft Germany employees presented Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT series as a disruptive force for companies and their Azure-OpenAI offering in detail. The kickoff event took place in the German language, news outlet Heise was present. Rather casually, Andreas Braun, CTO Microsoft Germany and Lead Data & AI STU, mentioned what he said was the imminent release of GPT-4. The fact that Microsoft is fine-tuning multimodality with OpenAI should no longer have been a secret since the release of Kosmos-1 at the beginning of March. "We will introduce GPT-4 next week, there we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities – for example videos," Braun said.