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OpenAI continues naming chaos despite CEO acknowledging the habit

OpenAI’s brand new “GPT-4.1” has a funky name but reasonable performance for the price.

At the same time, the company announced it will retire the GPT-4.5 Preview model in the API—a temporary offering launched in February that one critic called a "lemon" —giving developers until July 2025 to switch to something else. It makes us wonder if OpenAI has been using LLMs to name its products, owing to the famous example last year where ChatGPT commonlyreported that the numerical value "9.11" was greater than "9.9". According to OpenAI, many improvements from these research models "have been gradually incorporated into the latest version of GPT-4o" in ChatGPT, with more features planned for future updates.

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