OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding

OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1 . Yes, “4.1” — as if the company’s nomenclature wasn’t confusing enough already. There’s GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, all of which OpenAI says “excel” at coding and instruction following. Available through OpenAI’s API but not ChatGPT, the multimodal models have a 1-million-token context window, meaning they can take in roughly 750,000 words in one go (more than “War and Peace”). GPT-4.1 arrives as OpenAI rivals like Google and Anthropic ratchet up efforts to build sophisticated programming models. Google’s recently released Gemini 2.5 Pro, which also has a 1-million-token context window, ranks highly on popular coding benchmarks. So do Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s upgraded V3. It’s the goal of many tech giants, including OpenAI, to train AI coding models capable of performing complex software engineering tasks. OpenAI’s grand ambition is to create an “agentic software engi ... Read full article.