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Capability gains

OpenAI releases GPT-4

GPT-4 improved broad reasoning and multimodal capability while documenting important limitations and safety work.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM68confidence 96/100

Why it moved the index

The release was a substantial general-capability step and broadened the range of economically useful cognitive tasks available to AI systems.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 68 · confidence 96

    Initial source-backed launch assessment

    11 Aug 2026