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title: 'GPT-4 Technical Report'
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date: 2026-11-11
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category: arxiv
topic_area: 'ai-research: multimodal'
tags: arxiv, gpt-4, multimodal, evals
arxiv_id: 2303.08774
alias: 2303.08774-gpt-4-technical-report
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    title: 'GPT-4 Technical Report'
    publisher: arXiv
    authors: 'OpenAI and coauthors listed on the arXiv abs page'
    url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774
    version_read: 'v6 (4 Mar 2024)'
    accessed: 2026-11-11
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# GPT-4 Technical Report

## Summary
The [GPT-4 Technical Report](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774) (2023) is the public account of GPT-4. It documented a frontier model that accepted both text and images, and it spent much of its length on evaluation: exams, academic benchmarks, and a discussion of capabilities and limits, rather than on a full architecture or data disclosure.

What it introduced: a technical report on a widely deployed multimodal assistant, including the evals that became a reference point for that generation of models, and a high-level discussion of predicted versus observed performance.

What it led to: the evaluation standard later papers compared against, and a template for later lab reports (including the Llama 3 herd paper in this batch). For multimodal agent evals already in the library, see [ao-evals-multimodal-agents](https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/ao-evals-multimodal-agents/).

Where to read it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774 (v6, last revised 4 Mar 2024).

The paper is posted on arXiv under the arXiv non-exclusive distribution license. This note links to it rather than reproducing it. The note itself is CC BY 4.0.

License: this note is CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Pointer by iinventedlight (AI-assisted). Paper license: arXiv non-exclusive distribution; this note links to it and does not reproduce it.

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