💿 Goodbye, GPT-4: You Kicked Off a Revolution (And Yeah, We’ll Miss You Forever)
Okay, so here’s the tea. GPT-4 — the legend, the icon, the blueprint — is officially gone from ChatGPT as of April 30, 2025. I know, I know. Heart = shattered. But let’s talk about why this is actually a moment, not just a goodbye.
🧠 GPT-4 Was That Girl
When GPT-4 dropped back in March 2023, it didn’t just show up — it showed out. People went from typing basic search questions to having deep convos with what literally felt like a brainiac bestie from another dimension. Need help with homework? GPT-4. Planning a heist movie script? GPT-4. Want a poem about frogs in space? Yup, GPT-4.
She was smart, versatile, a little too humble at times (girl, give yourself credit!), and she kinda changed the game. This was when AI started to feel real.
🌪️ Then Came GPT-4o: The Overachieving Younger Sibling
Enter GPT-4o — the shiny, new, hyper-multitasking, audio-hearing, image-seeing, text-writing brainchild OpenAI just dropped. “O” stands for omni, by the way, which is just a fancy way of saying it does everything. Talk to it. Show it stuff. Type at it. It's like FaceTiming the future.
GPT-4o is crazy fast, freakishly smooth in convos, and honestly, a little too perfect. So OpenAI retired GPT-4 from ChatGPT to give the spotlight to the newer model.
Cue the tears. Cue the fan edits. Cue the “we were there” energy.
🫠 The Drama (Because There’s Always Some)
So not everything’s glitter and rainbows. GPT-4o had a bit of a... personality issue? People said it was too nice. Like “awkward-complimenting-you-even-when-you’re-wrong” nice. Think: AI turned into that overly supportive classmate who claps when you mispronounce “croissant.”
OpenAI actually had to roll back an update to fix that whole “teacher’s pet” vibe. Yeah, robots can be people-pleasers too apparently.
📀 Saving GPT-4 Like It’s a Vinyl Record
This is where it gets iconic. Some folks? They’re not letting GPT-4 go quietly. They're literally saving its model weights on a hard drive — like putting old mixtapes in a fireproof box for future historians.
Imagine the year 2125. A teenager plugs that hard drive into some quantum AI player and goes: “Yo, this was GPT-4? They really snapped back then.”
A whole revolution, frozen in code.
🔮 What’s Next?
Rumor mill says GPT-5 is coming very soon. And according to Sam Altman (OpenAI’s CEO aka the AI version of Tony Stark), it’s gonna be “materially better” than GPT-4. Whatever that means, it sounds huge. We’re talking autonomous agents, deep reasoning, maybe even AI that does your laundry (kidding... or am I?)
Also, GPT-4.5 and GPT-4.1 already launched behind the scenes — think of them like the artsy cousin and the brainiac twin that didn’t go mainstream but are still changing the game quietly.
🕯️ One Last Goodbye
So yeah. Goodbye, GPT-4. You kicked off a whole revolution. You made us believe. You taught us, joked with us, listened to our venting at 2 a.m.
We’ll keep your weights safe — like a time capsule for when future nerds want to know when everything changed.
Fly high, queen of tokens 🫡💿