Openai said on Monday that he would soon end the availability of GPT-4.5Its most important AI model, via its API. GPT-4.5 was only published at the end of February.
The developers will have access to GPT-4.5 via the OPENAI API until July 14, after which they will have to go to another model in the Openai catalog, according to the company. Openai is positioned GPT-4.1Who launched on Monday, as a favorite replacement.
“(GPT-4.1) offers similar or improved performance that GPT-4.5 in key areas at a much lower cost,” said an Openai spokesperson in Techcrunch by e-mail. “(W) will (will be) deprecating GPT-4.5 to prioritize the construction of future models.”
To be clear, GPT-4.5 does not leave the Chatppt, where it is available in the preview of the search for customers. Openai only removes it from the API.
GPT-4.5, Code named Orionhas been trained using more power and calculation data than all previous versions of OpenAi. He improves his predecessor, GPT-4Oin fields such as writing and persuasionBut despite its scale, the GPT-4.5 is below the “level of the border” on a certain number of landmarks of the industry.
GPT-4.5 is also very expensive to manage, admits OPENAI-so dear that the company warned in February that it assessed whether to serve the GPT-4.5 via its long-term API. The price of the model reflects this: GPT-4.5 costs $ 75 for each million entry tokens (around 750,000 words) and $ 150 per million production tokens, making it one of the most expensive Openai offers.