GPT models generate text and, in recent versions, handle images and audio. As closed API models they offer strong capability with no hosting burden, at a per-token price, and are a frequent baseline against which open models are compared.

Book cover: AI for Video, Volume 6 of the Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook

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AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video

GPT models are the usual baseline for reasoning and vision, and the question is when an open model matches them for less. This volume covers GPT among closed frontier models: multimodal capabilities, context windows, the open-versus-closed procurement decision, and the lifecycle of an AI feature built on an API. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.

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