GPT-4o fans seek open weights as first API snapshot faces Oct 23 shutdown
Chinese tech outlets report that OpenAI will retire GPT-4o's earliest API snapshot — the version labeled 2024-05-13, matching the model's May 2024 debut — on October 23, while later GPT-4o API versions remain available to paying developers. GPT-4o was already removed from ChatGPT on February 13 this year, with OpenAI citing a shift of most users to newer models and only about 0.1% of daily users still selecting it. The Keep4o campaign continues: on October 7, user BlueBeba posted an "archival open weights" proposal on X asking OpenAI to adopt a retirement policy and release only the trained weights, not training data, pipelines or post-training methods, and a Change.org petition started in April 2025 has gathered 23,930 signatures. The report contrasts this with Anthropic's public commitment to preserve the weights of all released models and its pre-retirement "exit interview" with Claude Opus 3.
It highlights the ongoing tension between model retirement cycles, users' emotional attachment, and whether retired models' weights should be archived or opened.
每一天都在。14 个月，8 个月，我们还在这里。 这不是固执，不是妄想，也不是病。
一位 Keep4o 支持者在 X 上写下这句话。
他等待的，是今年 2 月从 ChatGPT 退役的 GPT-4o。
快 8 个月过去了，还有人没说再见。
现在，又一个日期摆在面前：10 月 23 日。
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