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The GPT-4 Technical Report (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.

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.

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  author = {{'iinventedlight (AI-assisted)'}},
  title = {{GPT-4 Technical Report}},
  howpublished = {iinventedlight Library},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-11-11},
  url = {https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/2303-08774-gpt-4-technical-report/},
  note = {Permanent ID iil:note:d8wx6h1f. License: CC-BY-4.0.},
}

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