On Monday, Openi Announced The latest series of GPT -4.1 Model Family, AI language models, for the first time, brings a window of one million token context to Open A and continues a long tradition of the names of the very confused AI model. New names in three confusion, in fact: GPT – 4.1, GPT – 4.1 mini, and GPT – 4.1 nano.
According to Openi, these models perform better GPT-4O In several major areas. But in an unusual move, GPT -4.1 will only be available by developer API, not in the user Chat GPT The interface where most people interact with Openi technology.
One million tokens context window – mainly text quantity AI can act at the same time. This is equivalent to the windows of Openi’s context Google’s Gemini ModelWho has offered similar context for some time.
At the same time, the company announced that it would retire the GPT-4.5 preview model in API. This a temporary offer was launched in February that a critic Called “lemons”Give developers to something else by July 2025. However, it appears that the GPT -4.5 will now be left in GPT.
A lot of names
If it seems confused, okay, because it is. Openi CEO Sam Altman recognized the habit of Openi’s horrible product names in February when To discuss the road map Long expected (and still ideological) GPT-5.
“We realize how complicated our model and product offerings have done.” Is written At this time, on the X, the Chat GPT interface was already crowded before the GPT-4O, various special GPT-4Os, GPT-4O, artificial reasoning O1-Par, O3-Mini, and O3-Mini-HIGH model, and GPT-4. The purpose described for GPT5 will be stability, a branding move to unite the Series models and GPT series models.
So, how does another clear number model, how does the launch of GPT -4.1 fit into this great alliance project? It’s difficult to say. In March 2024, Altman predicted such ambiguity, told Lex Freedman that the company was coming to a big release but was not sure about their names: “Before we talk about the GPT -5 -like model, or called it, or much worse or a little better you would expect …”