I don’t think you’re fully understanding what the docs are trying to say.
chatgpt-4o-latest points to the same model used by ChatGPT. It’s a derivative of gpt-4o designed to be more communicative.
I don’t understand why you think it would just simply point to gpt4o, why would it exist then?
Your initial post was “My user says ChatGPT is better”. I am saying to you, the first step to be closer to ChatGPT is to use the model.
The first step is to use the same model that ChatGPT does. At least try it out and see the differences.
I can maybe understand because the docs really don’t highlight the differences, but here is a Twitter post about it:
Michelle Pokrass (@michpokrass) on X
@aidan_mclau @OpenAIDevs chatgpt-4o-latest will track our 4o model in chatgpt, and is a chat-optimized model. our model from last week (gpt-4o-2024-08-06) is optimized for api usage (eg. function calling, instruction following) so we generally recommend that!
chatgpt-4o-latest is a chat-optimized model that is used by ChatGPT
gpt-4o-[] is optimized for API-usage
Could it be that overtime they have converged? Maybe? But it’s a good first step to matching the quality of ChatGPT.