GPT-4o removed for 8 months: the Keep4o campaign continues, OpenAI will retire its earliest API snapshot on October 23

OpenAI will retire the earliest API snapshot of GPT-4o (2024-05-13) on October 23, and the rescue effort by Keep4o supporters continues. On October 7, netizen BlueBeba proposed a "GPT-4o archival open-weights" plan, asking OpenAI to release the retired model's weights under an appropriate license; the Change.org petition has received 23,930 signatures. OpenAI announced in January that it would remove the model on February 13, citing that only 0.1% of users per day still chose GPT-4o.