
OpenAI has announced the rollout of its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini AI models to ChatGPT, expanding the right of entry to past builders for the first time.
The models, which were released to begin with via OpenAI's API in april, are now available to customers on ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team plans, while GPT-4.1 mini is available to both free and paid users. The business enterprise introduced via a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the model was being made public because of famous demand.
As a part of this update, OpenAI is also eliminating the GPT-4o mini version from ChatGPT for all customers. In advance, on april 30, OpenAI had additionally removed the GPT-4.0 model for all users in a bid to lessen version confusion for users.
GPT-4.1 is designed to offer superior overall performance in coding and preparation-following responsibilities as compared to GPT-4o, at the same time as also being quicker. The model is especially useful for software engineers operating on code writing or debugging. Despite its enhancements, OpenAI has clarified that GPT-4.1 no longer qualifies as a frontier version, i.e., those that introduce new modalities or substantially greater advanced competencies. Consequently, it no longer requires the same stage of safety reporting as different ones.
"GPT-4.1 builds on the protection work and mitigations evolved for GPT-4o. Across our fashionable protection reviews, GPT-4.1 plays at parity with GPT-4o, showing that enhancements can be brought without introducing new protection dangers," said Johannes Heidecke, Head of Safety Structures at OpenAI, in a publication on X. He additionally referred to the fact that the model "would not surpass O3 in intelligence."
OpenAI had previously confronted complaints for launching GPT-4.1 without publishing a safety report, prompting concerns from the AI studies community about declining transparency requirements. In reaction, the organization has now dedicated itself to liberating inner safety assessment results more regularly. Those will be posted via a new initiative, the Protection Critiques Hub, released on Wednesday.