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Tue. 04/15 – Why Is OpenAI Going Backwards (Name-Wise)?

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Brian McCullough

News, Technology, Daily News, Tech News

4.7984 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0

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,

0:21.8

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

0:25.5

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

0:32.5

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

0:41.6

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

0:47.4

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

0:52.1

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

0:55.4

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

1:01.3

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

1:08.4

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

1:12.3

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

1:18.9

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

1:25.5

OpenAI says Excel at coding and instruction following.

1:29.0

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

1:32.9

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

1:38.1

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

1:43.7

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

1:46.3

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

1:52.3

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

1:58.0

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

2:02.5

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

2:07.1

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

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