4 weeks ago
72
June 17, 2025 2:52 PM
VentureBeat made with Midjourney
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more
Word spread quickly across the machine learning and AI community on the social network X yesterday: OpenAI was sending developers an email notifying them that the company would be removing one of its largest and most powerful large language models (LLMs), GPT-4.5 Preview, from the official OpenAI application programming interface (API) on July 14, 2025.
However, as an OpenAI spokesperson told VentureBeat via email, GPT-4.5 Preview will remain an option to individual ChatGPT users through the dropdown model selector menu at the top of the application.
But it stil means that any third-party developers who had built applications or workflows atop GPT-4.5 preview (we’ll call it GPT-4.5 from here on out for simplicity’s sake, since a full GPT-4.5 was never made available on this platform), now need to switch over to another one of OpenAI’s nearly 40 (!!!) different model offerings still available through the API.
The news quickly spread on X, where developers and AI enthusiasts posted reactions ranging from disappointment to confusion.
Some described GPT-4.5 as a daily tool in their workflow, pr...
English (US)