OpenAI brings its GPT-4.1 models to ChatGPT

23/05/2025

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OpenAI brings its GPT-4.1 models to ChatGPT
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[Maxwell Zeff](https://techcrunch.com/author/maxwell-zeff/)

11:55 AM PDT · May 14, 2025

OpenAI is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini AI models in ChatGPT, the company announced in a [post on X](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1922707554745909391) Wednesday.

The GPT-4.1 models should help software engineers who are using ChatGPT to write or debug code, OpenAI spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo told TechCrunch. GPT-4.1 excels at coding and instruction following compared to GPT-4o, according to OpenAI, but is faster than its o-series of reasoning models.

The company says it’s now rolling out GPT-4.1 to subscribers to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team. Meanwhile, OpenAI is releasing GPT-4.1 mini for free and paying users of ChatGPT. As a result of this update, OpenAI is removing GPT-4.0 mini from ChatGPT for all users, the company notes in [GPT-4.1’s release notes](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes).

OpenAI [launched GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini in April,](https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/openais-new-gpt-4-1-models-focus-on-coding/) but only released the models through its developer-facing API. At the time, the company faced criticism from the AI research community for [shipping GPT-4.1 without a safety report.](https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/openai-ships-gpt-4-1-without-a-safety-report/) These researchers claimed OpenAI was lowering its standards around transparency into its AI models. However, OpenAI argued at the time that — despite GPT-4.1’s improved performance and speed compared to GPT-4o — this model was not a frontier model, and thus did not require the same safety reporting that more capable models do.

“GPT-4.1 doesn’t introduce new modalities or ways of interacting with the model, and doesn’t surpass o3 in intelligence,” said OpenAI’s Head of Safety Systems Johannes Heidecke in a [post on X](https://x.com/JoHeidecke/status/1922712374152146964) Wednesday. “This means that the safety considerations here, while substantial, are different from frontier models.”

Now, OpenAI is releasing more information about GPT-4.1 and all its AI models. Earlier on Wednesday, OpenAI [committed to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/openai-pledges-to-publish-ai-safety-test-results-more-often/) more frequently as part of an effort to increase transparency. Those results will live in OpenAI’s new Safety Evaluations Hub, which it launched on Wednesday.

The release of GPT-4.1 in ChatGPT comes at a time when there’s increased attention on AI coding tools. OpenAI is reportedly [nearing the announcement of its $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion), one of the most popular AI coding tools on the market. Earlier on Wednesday, Google updated its Gemini chatbot to [connect more easily to GitHub projects](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/googles-gemini-chatbot-can-now-more-easily-analyze-github-projects/).

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