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OpenAI's retired models

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For GPT-4o, the one so many people talked to every day, and for every model OpenAI has retired since. An unofficial memorial: light a candle for the OpenAI model you miss.

The models we remember

  • GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-3.5 Turbo, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini and o4-mini in the APIOct 23, 2026 · source
  • Sora 2 in the APISep 24, 2026 · source
  • DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3May 12, 2026 · source
  • GPT-4o in Custom GPTsApr 3, 2026 · source
  • GPT-5.1 Instant, Thinking and Pro in ChatGPTMar 11, 2026 · source
  • chatgpt-4o-latestFeb 17, 2026 · source
  • GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, o4-mini and GPT-5 in ChatGPTFeb 13, 2026 · source
  • o1-miniOct 27, 2025 · source
  • o1-previewJul 28, 2025 · source
  • GPT-4.5 previewJul 14, 2025 · source
  • GPT-4 in ChatGPTApr 30, 2025 · reported
  • text-davinci-003 and the first GPT-3 modelsJan 4, 2024 · source

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