In a move that’s got the tech world buzzing 🐝, OpenAI has dropped a bombshell: GPT-4.5, their largest AI model to date, is being phased out from the API. Released just in late February, this behemoth, codenamed Orion, will bow out by July 14. Why? OpenAI’s betting big on GPT-4.1, claiming it delivers similar or better performance at a fraction of the cost. 🔥
But here’s the twist: GPT-4.5 isn’t vanishing entirely. Paying ChatGPT users can still access it in research preview. The API phase-out seems to be a cost-cutting move, given GPT-4.5’s hefty price tag—$75 per million input tokens and $150 per million output tokens. 💸
Despite its massive scale and improvements over GPT-4o, GPT-4.5 didn’t quite hit ‘frontier-level’ benchmarks. So, OpenAI’s shifting gears, focusing on future models. Developers, it’s time to adapt! 🚀
