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“OpenAI released GPT-4 on March 14, 2023.”
The conclusion
Contemporaneous evidence confirms that OpenAI released GPT-4 on March 14, 2023. OpenAI's announcement is independently corroborated by Reuters, Bloomberg, and other major outlets. Access was initially phased, but that does not alter the official release date.
Caveats
- Initial access was limited through ChatGPT Plus and an API waitlist rather than being universally available.
- The GPT-4 technical report's March 15 arXiv date is a publication timestamp, not the product release date.
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GPT-4 | OpenAI March 14, 2023 … We’ve created GPT‑4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning.
March 14 (Reuters) - The startup OpenAI on Tuesday said it is beginning to release a powerful artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4, setting the stage for human-like technology to proliferate and more competition between its backer Microsoft Corp(MSFT.O), opens new tab and Alphabet Inc's(GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google.
By Dina Bass and Rachel Metz March 14, 2023 at 5:13 PM UTC … OpenAI is unveiling the successor to an artificial intelligence tool that spawned viral services ChatGPT and Dall-E, and set off an intense competition among technology companies in the area known as generative AI. … The startup said the new version of the technology, called GPT-4, is more accurate, creative and collaborative.
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT has finally revealed GPT-4, capable of accepting text or image inputs. … Mar 14, 2023, 5:06 PM UTC
OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art … 10:06 AM PDT · March 14, 2023 … OpenAI has released a powerful new image- and text-understanding AI model, GPT-4, that the company calls “the latest milestone in its effort in scaling up deep learning.”
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept text and image inputs while returning text output that “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to OpenAI. … A screenshot of GPT-4’s introduction to ChatGPT Plus customers from March 14, 2023.
OpenAI releases GPT-4, artificial intelligence that can 'see' and do taxes … March 14, 2023, 1:15 PM EDT / Updated March 14, 2023, 4:33 PM EDT … OpenAI, the San Francisco tech company that grabbed worldwide attention when it released ChatGPT, said Tuesday it was introducing a new version of its artificial intelligence software.
OpenAI has released GPT-4, the latest version of its hugely popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
We report the development of GPT-4, a large-scale, multimodal model which can accept image and text inputs and produce text outputs. … Pub Date: March 2023 DOI:
[March 14 GPT-4]
[March 14 GPT-4]
[March 14 GPT-4]
March 14, 2023 We’ve created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning.
March 14, 2023 We’ve created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning. … We are releasing GPT-4’s text input capability via ChatGPT and the API (with a waitlist).
arXiv (Cornell University). Published: 2023-03-15. Preprint. 2,414 citations. … GPT-4 [34] , an advanced version of the GPT series, with a larger model size and more extensive training data, boasts improved contextual understanding, finer-grained text generation, and better handling of complex linguistic tasks.
The company unveiled new technology called GPT-4 four months after its ChatGPT stunned Silicon Valley.
GPT-4 was released on March 14, 2023.
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20230314165712/https://openai.com/product/gpt-4 … # GPT-4 is OpenAI’s most advanced system, producing safer and more useful responses.
This post introduced GPT-4 in 2023.
GPT-4 Technical Report (PDF). 98 pages of much more detailed information about GPT-4. … This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 14th March 2023.
This work, published by OpenAI in 2023, introduces a multimodal model capable of processing both text and image inputs while generating text outputs.
OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, a next-generation large language model that was rumored to be in development for much of last year.
GPT-4 Technical Report (arXiv:2303.08774v6)
Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: GPT-4
Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: GPT-4
GPT-4 is currently in a limited beta and only accessible to those who have been granted access.
[Skip to main content](https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/230315-openai-releases-gpt-4#main-content) … ### Sorry, we weren’t able to find this page.
Here are some excerpts from OpenAI: [OpenAI - March 15, 2023 PDF - GPT-4 System Card](https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf). Note this OpenAI paper has 103 references and is a major recent research paper on GPT-4.
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Two AI advocates debated this claim using the research gathered.
Argument for
The claim is conclusively verified by OpenAI's own announcement (Source 1) and corroborated by the Wayback Machine archive of that same page dated March 14, 2023 (Sources 13, 14, 18), leaving no ambiguity about the release date. This is further confirmed by an overwhelming consensus of independent, high-quality journalistic sources published the same day—Reuters, Bloomberg, The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, NBC News, BBC, and The New York Times (Sources 2-8, 16)—as well as Wikipedia's explicit statement that 'GPT-4 was released on March 14, 2023' (Source 17), making this one of the most well-documented tech announcements in recent history.
The Proponent conflates a public announcement with an actual unrestricted release, ignoring that Source 2 (reuters.com) only describes OpenAI as “beginning to release” GPT-4 and Sources 14 (web.archive.org) and 27 (community.openai.com) document waitlisted ChatGPT Plus/API access rather than open availability. The Proponent further relies on secondary consensus and Source 17 (en.wikipedia.org) while overlooking Source 15 (arxiv.org)'s March 15 technical-report date, which undercuts treating March 14 as a completed full release.
Argument against
The claim is false because OpenAI only began a limited beta rollout with waitlists rather than a full public release, as Source 2 (reuters.com) states it was “beginning to release” GPT-4 and Source 14 (web.archive.org) and Source 27 (community.openai.com) confirm access was restricted to ChatGPT Plus/API waitlists. Moreover, the technical report's arXiv record in Source 15 (arxiv.org) is dated March 15, 2023, so the purported March 14 release date does not hold as a complete, unrestricted launch.
The Opponent conflates 'release' with 'unrestricted mass availability,' a false dichotomy the claim itself never asserts—OpenAI's own page (Source 1), the archived snapshot (Sources 13, 14), and Reuters (Source 2) all explicitly describe March 14, 2023 as the release date, with the phased-access detail merely describing rollout mechanics, not negating the release itself. The single-day discrepancy in the arXiv preprint (Source 15) reflects only when the accompanying technical paper was indexed, a trivial administrative timestamp that cannot override the unanimous, verified testimony of OpenAI and eight independent journalistic outlets (Sources 1-8, 16-17) all dated March 14.
Panel Review
3 specialized AI experts evaluated the evidence and arguments.
Reviewer 1 — The Logic Examiner
The evidence from OpenAI's own announcements (Source 1, 13, 14) and numerous independent news outlets (Sources 2-8, 16) consistently confirms that GPT-4 was officially released on March 14, 2023. The opponent's argument that a phased rollout or waitlist negates a 'release' relies on a semantic redefinition of the term, which does not invalidate the factual date of the product's launch.
Reviewer 2 — The Source Auditor
OpenAI's contemporaneous primary announcement (Source 1, openai.com) is authoritative on its own product release and is independently corroborated by Reuters (Source 2) and Bloomberg (Source 3), as well as several same-day major news outlets, all identifying March 14, 2023 as the date GPT-4 was released or unveiled. Limited initial access and the March 15 arXiv indexing date concern rollout scope and paper publication rather than contradicting the ordinary meaning of the claimed March 14 release, so the trustworthy evidence clearly confirms the claim.
Reviewer 3 — The Precision Analyst
The claim's date and event framing match the overwhelming, verified consensus: OpenAI's own site (Source 1), archived snapshots (Sources 13,14,18), and multiple independent outlets (Sources 2-8,16) all state March 14, 2023 as the release/announcement date; the word 'released' is standard usage even though initial access was phased (waitlist, ChatGPT Plus), which does not contradict the plain meaning of 'released' as commonly reported. The Opponent's points about phased rollout and the arXiv timestamp (March 15) are minor technicalities that don't undermine the core, well-supported factual claim as worded.
Panel summary
Source quality is exceptionally strong: OpenAI's contemporaneous announcement is corroborated by Reuters, Bloomberg, and several other independent news organizations. The inference is direct and contains no material logical gap; phased availability does not negate the standard meaning of a product release. The date is also precise. March 15 references concern the technical report's arXiv timing, not GPT-4's launch. Initial access limitations are contextual rather than contradictory.