Eight months after being taken down, the rescue efforts for GPT-4o are surprisingly still ongoing.

What happened: OpenAI will retire the earliest GPT-4o API snapshot, named 2024-05-13, on October 23. Supporters continue the Keep4o campaign, now asking OpenAI to release the retired model's weights. Key numbers: GPT-4o launched May 13, 2024. OpenAI said only 0.1% of users still chose GPT-4o daily. A Change.org petition has 23,930 signatures; a second petition has 472. Why it matters: OpenAI has not responded to the requests and the retirement decision stands. The article contrasts this with Anthropic, which pledged to preserve weights of publicly released models.

OpenAI will retire the earliest GPT-4o API snapshot, named 2024-05-13, on October 23. Supporters continue the Keep4o campaign, now asking OpenAI to release the retired model's weights.

OpenAI has not responded to the requests and the retirement decision stands. The article contrasts this with Anthropic, which pledged to preserve weights of publicly released models.