OpenAI has officially retired the controversial GPT-4o model

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Some users are mourning GPT-4o's discontinuation on February 13, despite the concerns that the cult-favorite model was dangerously sycophantic. OpenAI's GPT-4o may have survived its first brush with going offline, but it won't be as lucky this time. OpenAI has officially retired GPT-4o, the ChatGPT model that was seen as more conversational and notoriously sycophantic, on February 13. The news of GPT-4o's end was first announced in a post on the OpenAI website in January, but the discontinuation also included GPT-5, GPT-4.1, However, a wave of user complaints led OpenAI to restore access to GPT-4o but with no guarantee that it'll be around forever.