OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 AI model comes to more ChatGPT users

OpenAI has begun rolling out its newest AI model, GPT-4.5, to users on its ChatGPT Plus tier. In a series of posts on X, OpenAI said that the rollout will take “1-3 days,” and that it expects rate limits to change. GPT-4.5 launched first for subscribers to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan last week. “We’d like to give everyone with access to GPT-4.5 a sizable rate limit, but we expect rate limits to change as we learn more about demand,” the company wrote in its post. GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest AI model yet, trained using more computing power and data than any of the company’s previous releases. But it’s not necessarily OpenAI’s best. On several AI benchmarks, GPT-4.5 falls short of newer AI “reasoning” models from Chinese AI company DeepSeek, Anthropic, and OpenAI itself. GPT-4.5 is also very expensive to run, OpenAI admits — so expensive that the company says it’s evaluating whether to continue serving GPT-4.5 in its API in the long term. To cover costs, the company is cha ... Read full article.