Maxwell Zeff
Wed, May 14, 2025, 11:55 AM 2 min read
OpenAI is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini AI models successful ChatGPT, the institution announced successful a post connected X Wednesday.
The GPT-4.1 models should assistance bundle engineers who are utilizing ChatGPT to constitute oregon debug code, OpenAI spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo told TechCrunch. GPT-4.1 excels astatine coding and acquisition pursuing compared to GPT-4o, according to OpenAI, but is faster than its o-series of reasoning models.
The institution says it's present rolling retired GPT-4.1 to subscribers to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team. Meanwhile, OpenAI is releasing GPT-4.1 mini for escaped and paying users of ChatGPT. As a effect of this update, OpenAI is removing GPT-4.0 mini from ChatGPT for each users, the institution notes successful GPT-4.1's merchandise notes.
OpenAI launched GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini successful April, but lone released the models done its developer-facing API. At the time, the institution faced disapproval from the AI probe assemblage for shipping GPT-4.1 without a information report. These researchers claimed OpenAI was lowering its standards astir transparency into its AI models. However, OpenAI argued astatine the clip that — contempt GPT-4.1's improved show and velocity compared to GPT-4o — this exemplary was not a frontier model, and frankincense did not necessitate the aforesaid information reporting that much susceptible models do.
"GPT-4.1 doesn’t present caller modalities oregon ways of interacting with the model, and doesn’t surpass o3 successful intelligence," said OpenAI's Head of Safety Systems Johannes Heidecke successful a station connected X Wednesday. "This means that the information considerations here, portion substantial, are antithetic from frontier models."
Now, OpenAI is releasing much accusation astir GPT-4.1 and each its AI models. Earlier connected Wednesday, OpenAI committed to people the results of its interior AI exemplary information evaluations much often arsenic portion of an effort to summation transparency. Those results volition unrecorded successful OpenAI's caller Safety Evaluations Hub, which it launched connected Wednesday.
The merchandise of GPT-4.1 successful ChatGPT comes astatine a clip erstwhile there's accrued attraction connected AI coding tools. OpenAI is reportedly nearing the announcement of its $3 cardinal acquisition of Windsurf, 1 of the astir fashionable AI coding tools connected the market. Earlier connected Wednesday, Google updated its Gemini chatbot to link much easy to GitHub projects.