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OpenAI moves forward with GPT-4.5 deprecation in API, triggering developer anguish and confusion
Despite the strong reaction, OpenAI had in fact already announced the plan to deprecate GPT-4.5 Preview back in April 2025.
However, as an OpenAI spokesperson told VentureBeat via email, GPT-4.5 Preview will remain an option to individual ChatGPT users through the dropdown model selector menu at the top of the application. In a follow-up response to VentureBeat, OpenAI communications confirmed that the June email was simply a scheduled reminder and that there are currently no plans to remove GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT subscriptions, where the model remains available. User@chatgpt21 commented that GPT-4.5 is the “best non reasoning model for open ai on all benchmarks and it’s obvious,” and predicted that OpenAI will “they add test time compute it will blow o3 out of the water.
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