With DeepSeek Threat Lurking, OpenAI Upgraded Their ChatGPT Model For Free

Latest ChatGPT Update features:

Extended Knowledge Base (Now Includes Up to June 2024)
Enhanced Image Analysis & Understanding
Improved STEM Proficiency (Math, Science, and Coding)
More Expressive Responses with Emoji Usage

DeepSeek AI is a new player in town and every other established AI company is having a hard time competing. Especially, when DeepSeek quickly became the most downloaded app on the App Store, surpassing OpenAI by miles. Since the DeepSeek release, OpenAI has been making massive changes in order to appease the free users. Today’s update is just that. A massive ChatGPT upgrade is on its way and already available for all users — free and paid.

The latest milestone in ChatGPT’s evolution came with the January 2025 update featuring Projects for subscribers, Canvas for free across platforms, Video Chat, and Screen Share features for Windows app, Android and iOS apps.

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OpenAI’s latest update to ChatGPT’s GPT-4o model takes another big step forward. This update introduces significant enhancements that make ChatGPT more knowledgeable, better at understanding images, and more adept at handling STEM-related topics. Additionally, it introduces a subtle but fun change—an increase in emoji usage.

One of the most notable changes in this update is the extension of GPT-4o’s knowledge base. Previously, its training data only went up to November 2023, limiting its ability to provide insights on recent events, emerging trends, and ongoing research. With the latest update, the training data now extends to June 2024, allowing ChatGPT to offer more accurate and relevant responses. Moreover, with a more up-to-date foundation, ChatGPT can now frame its web searches more efficiently, ensuring that it pulls in the most relevant information when conducting live searches.

Another major improvement in this update is GPT-4o’s enhanced ability to analyze and interpret images. With better performance on multimodal benchmarks such as MMMU and MathVista, the model now provides deeper insights into charts, graphs, spatial layouts, and complex diagrams. This is a game-changer for professionals in fields like architecture, data analysis, and engineering, as the model can now recognize spatial relationships and provide more accurate interpretations of visual data. Whether it’s helping designers refine a blueprint, assisting students in solving a geometry problem, or breaking down the components of a technical illustration, GPT-4o now offers a much stronger level of visual comprehension.

For those in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), this update brings even more exciting improvements. GPT-4o has made significant strides in math, science, and coding-related problems, achieving higher scores on academic benchmarks like GPQA, MATH, and MMLU. This means it can now handle more complex problem-solving, provide better explanations for scientific concepts, and assist with programming tasks more effectively than before.

In addition to these technical upgrades, OpenAI has also made ChatGPT’s responses more expressive by increasing its emoji usage. While this may seem like a minor change, it makes interactions feel more natural and engaging. If you tend to use emojis in your messages, ChatGPT will now respond in kind, making conversations with the AI feel more dynamic and interactive.