One of the biggest improvements in recent AI models is the increase in context length — but why is this so important?
Context length refers to how much text the model can “see” at once. Early versions of GPT could only handle a few thousand tokens, but GPT-4-turbo now supports up to 128,000 tokens. That’s about 300 pages of text!
What does this allow?
Summarizing entire books.
Analyzing long documents.
Keeping track of long conversations without forgetting earlier parts.
Handling complex instructions with many details.
This opens new possibilities for research, business, coding, and personal use.
As context length grows, models become more capable of working on tasks that used to require human memory and attention across large amounts of information.