Not a ton of detail yet, but interesting to see OpenAI push into the realm of Small Language Models—especially with a multimodal model that can easily understand audio, video, images, and text.

The round-trip latency cost of calling services on the Internet can make or break AI-powered hardware—just look at the Humane pin.

Powerful small models that run locally can open the door to super-fast response times that happen locally, and with fewer privacy concerns.

Of course, details are super slim, but if OpenAI plans to license ChatGPT 4o Mini to hardware makers it could open the door to tons of exciting new products that actually work.

OpenAI debuts mini version of its most powerful model yet

OpenAI on Thursday launched a new AI model, “GPT-4o mini,” the artificial intelligence startup’s latest effort to expand use of its popular chatbot.