OpenAI said in a post on X Wednesday that it is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 small AI models in ChatGPT.
Software engineers utilizing ChatGPT should find the GPT-4.1 models useful for writing or debugging code, according to OpenAI spokesman Shaokyi Amdo. OpenAI claims that GPT-4.1 is faster than its o-series of reasoning models yet performs better at coding and command following than GPT-4o.
According to the firm, ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers are currently receiving GPT-4.1. In the meantime, ChatGPT customers that pay can download GPT-4.1 mini for free from OpenAI. According to the company’s release notes for GPT-4.1, OpenAI is eliminating GPT-4.0 small from ChatGPT for all users as a result of this update.
GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 small were introduced by OpenAI in April, although the models were only made available via its developer-facing API. The AI research community at the time criticized the corporation for shipping GPT-4.1 without a safety report. According to these academics, OpenAI was lowering the bar for transparency in their AI models. At the time, OpenAI contended that even while GPT-4.1 outperformed GPT-4o in terms of speed and performance, it was not a frontier model and, as a result, did not need the same safety reporting as more advanced models.
In a post on X Wednesday, Johannes Heidecke, Head of Safety Systems at OpenAI, stated that GPT-4.1 “does not surpass o3 in intelligence, nor does it introduce new modalities or ways of interacting with the model.” “This indicates that, although significant, the safety considerations here differ from frontier models.”
More details on GPT-4.1 and all of its AI models are now being made public by OpenAI. In an attempt to be more transparent, OpenAI earlier Wednesday pledged to release the findings of its internal AI model safety assessments more regularly. OpenAI inaugurated its new Safety Evaluations Hub on Wednesday, and those findings will be available there.
The launch of ChatGPT’s GPT-4.1 coincides with a surge in interest in AI coding tools. One of the most well-known AI coding tools available, Windsurf, is apparently about to be acquired by OpenAI for $3 billion. Google modified its Gemini chatbot earlier on Wednesday to make it easier to connect to GitHub projects.