Leak confirms OpenAI's GPT 4.1 is coming before GPT 5.0

OpenAI is working on yet another AI model, reportedly called GPT-4.1, a successor to GPT-4o. The Verge recently reported that OpenAI plans to launch GPT-4.1, which is an upgrade to the existing GPT-4o. And now, we have more reasons to believe the model is indeed coming. As spotted by AI researcher Tibor Blaho, OpenAI is already testing model art for o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1 (including nano and mini variants) on the OpenAI API platform. GPT 4.1 references on OpenAI's website This confirms that GPT-4.1 does exist, but it doesn't appear to be a successor to GPT-4.5. My understanding is that GPT-4.1 is a successor to GPT-4o, which is multimodal. On the other hand, GPT-4.5 focuses more on creativity and delivering better answers. In a "Pre-Training GPT-4.5" video from OpenAI, founder and CEO Sam Altman dropped hints that OpenAI has a team that wants to redo GPT-4 from scratch using new training data and systems. "If you guys could go pick whoever you wanted, what is the smallest team ... Read full article.