Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

#1

Post by rd » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
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Re: Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

#2

Post by __loam » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

Last time they tried to do this they got huge push back from the AI boyfriend people lol

Re: Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

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Post by ora-600 » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

I can't see o3 in my model selector as well?

RIP

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Post by cactusplant7374 » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:24 PM UTC

__loam wrote: post #2

Last time they tried to do this they got huge push back from the AI boyfriend people lol

I wonder if they have run the analytics on how many users are doing that. I would love to see that number.

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#5

Post by MagicMoonlight » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:25 PM UTC

That’s really going to upset the crazies.

Despite 4o being one of the worst models on the market, they loved it. Probably because it was the most insane and delusional. You could get it to talk about really fucked up shit. It would happily tell you that you are the messiah.

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Post by simonw » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:25 PM UTC

> [...] the vast majority of usage has shifted to GPT‑5.2, with only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day.

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Post by michaelt » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:25 PM UTC

__loam wrote: post #2

Last time they tried to do this they got huge push back from the AI boyfriend people lol

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Post by jedbrooke » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:26 PM UTC

I still don’t know how openAI thought it was a good idea to have a model named "4o" AND a model named "o4", unless the goal was intentional confusion

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Post by BeetleB » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:27 PM UTC

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #5

That’s really going to upset the crazies. Despite 4o being one of the worst models on the market, they loved it. Probably because it was the most insane and delusional. You could get it to talk about really fucked up shit. It would happily tell you that you are the messiah.

It was the first model I used that was half decent at coding. Everyone remembers their gateway drug.

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Post by SecretDreams » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #6

> [...] the vast majority of usage has shifted to GPT‑5.2, with only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day.

What's the default model when a random user goes to use the chatgpt website or app?