GPT4o August + 100% Structured Outputs for All (GPT4o August edition)
OpenAI released the new gpt-4o-2024-08-06 model with 16k context window and 33-50% lower pricing than the previous 4o-May version, featuring a new Structured Output API that improves output quality and reduces retry costs. Meta AI launched Llama 3.1, a 405-billion parameter model surpassing GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on benchmarks, alongside expanding the Llama Impact Grant program. Google DeepMind quietly released Gemini 1.5 Pro, outperforming GPT-4o, Claude-3.5, and Llama 3.1 on LMSYS benchmarks and leading the Vision Leaderboard. Yi-Large Turbo was introduced as a cost-effective upgrade priced at $0.19 per million tokens. In hardware, NVIDIA H100 GPUs were highlighted by John Carmack for their massive AI workload power, and Groq announced plans to deploy 108,000 LPUs by Q1 2025. New AI tools and techniques include RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), the JamAI Base platform for Mixture of Agents systems, and LangSmith's enhanced filtering capabilities. Google DeepMind also introduced PEER (Parameter Efficient Expert Retrieval) architecture.