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OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again

August 13, 2025
OpenAI is once again making GPT-4o — the large language model (LLM) that powered ChatGPT before last week’s launch of GPT-5 — a default option for all paying users, that is, those who subscribe to the ChatGPT Plus ($20 per month), Pro ($200 per month), Team ($30 per month), Enterprise, or Edu tiers, no longer requiring users to toggle on a “show legacy models” setting to access it.
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout is not going smoothly

August 12, 2025
Updated Friday August 8, 5:21 pm ET: shortly after this post’s publication, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced the company would restore access to GPT-4o and other old models for selected users, admitting the GPT-5 launch was “more bumpy than we hoped…
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OpenAI is editing its GPT-5 rollout on the fly — here’s what’s changing in ChatGPT

August 12, 2025
OpenAI’s launch of its most advanced AI model GPT-5 last week has been a stress test for the world’s most popular chatbot platform with 700 million weekly active users — and so far, OpenAI is openly struggling to keep users happy and its service running smoothly. The new flagship model GPT-5 — available in four variants of different speed and intelligence (regular, mini, nano, and pro)…
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AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement

August 11, 2025
Cognitive migration is underway. The station is crowded. Some have boarded while others hesitate, unsure whether the destination justifies the departure. Future of work expert and Harvard University Professor Christopher Stanton commented recently that the uptake of AI has been tremendous and observed that it is an “extraordinarily fast-diffusing technology.” That speed of adoption and impact…
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ChatGPT users dismayed as OpenAI pulls popular models GPT-4o, o3 and more — enterprise API remains (for now)

August 8, 2025
After announcing the release of its newest flagship model family, GPT-5, OpenAI said the model will power all of ChatGPT, and that it will sunset the existing models in the chat platform.  OpenAI, through a spokesperson, told VentureBeat that GPT-5 “will replace all other models in ChatGPT, so users don’t have to pick depending on each task, which takes effect once you have access to…
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