Welcome to the Tech Mean Right Home for Tuesday, April 15th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. OpenAI releases its latest next-gen models, but you wouldn't know it by the nomenclature because the numbers are going backwards. What's up with that? Apple is tying itself in a pretzel to train on user data, but still stick to privacy,

and a big rundown of the first day of the big meta-antitrust trial.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

OpenAI has released GPT4.1, GPT4.1 Mini GPT 4.1 Nano, which they claim Excel at coding,

instruction following, and long context understanding available via its API.

Okay, now obviously, I'm about to quote from a bunch of places telling you what is new

and different in these models, but you may be thinking,

A, Brian, another new model, can it really be that different enough for me to care? And B, wait,

I thought we already had GPT4.5. Are we going backwards? Hang on. We'll address both of those

issues in a second. First, quoting TechCrunch. OpenAI on Monday

launched a new family of models called GBT 4.1, yes, 4.1, as if the company's nomenclature wasn't

confusing enough already. There's GPD 4.1, GPD 4.1 mini, and GPT 4.1 nano, all of which

OpenAI says Excel at coding and instruction following.

Available through OpenAI's API, but not chat GPT.

The multimodal models have a 1 million token context window, meaning they can take in roughly

750,000 words in one go, longer than the novel war and peace.

It's the goal of many tech giants, including OpenAI

to train AI coding models capable of performing complex software engineering tasks. OpenAI's grand

ambition is to create an agenic software engineer, as CFO Sarah Fryer put it during a tech

summit in London last month. The company asserts its future models will be able

to program entire apps end-to-end handling aspects such as quality assurance, bug testing, and

documentation writing. GPD 4.1 is a step in this direction. Open AI claims the full GPT4.1 model

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