You’ll soon have fewer AI models to choose from when conversing with ChatGPT. OpenAI recently announced that it’ll soon be discontinuing several of the AI chatbot’s older GPT models.
In two weeks—on Friday, February 13th—OpenAI will remove the GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini models from ChatGPT. The retirement of these older models is unlikely to affect most users, with OpenAI claiming that most users have shifted over to GPT‑5.2 (and GPT-4o only being used by 0.1 percent of users on a daily basis).
This isn’t the first time the AI company has discontinued GPT-4o. The AI model was replaced in August last year by GPT-5, but OpenAI brought it back after user backlash. Criticism from that fiasco is said to have shaped the development of the company’s latest AI models.