GPT-4o API dies January 14 as OpenAI refuses to release weights, pushing users to Qwen
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-10-16
OpenAI is killing GPT-4o for good, with the final API snapshots shutting down on January 14. Despite open letters begging for the weights, OpenAI refuses — even though a 2-year-old model is hardly a frontier secret and the company already showed it can open-source with gpt-oss. Sam Altman himself called the earlier unannounced 4o shutdown a mistake; this time users get 3 months' notice. Observers note the backlash has pushed mainstream users toward open-weight models like Qwen, reinforcing the argument that rented models die on someone else's schedule while open weights keep running on your own GPUs a decade later.
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