GPT-4o (Jan 2025)

Closed weights OpenAI January 2025

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The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

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Full specification

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
OpenAI
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
29 January 2025
Authors
Aidan Clark, Alex Paino, Jacob Menick, Liam Fedus, Luke Metz, Clemens Winter, Lia Guy, Sam Schoenholz, Daniel Levy, Nitish Keskar, Alex Carney, Alex Paino, Ian Sohl, Qiming Yuan, Reimar Leike, Arka Dhar, Brydon Eastman, Mia Glaese, Ben Sokolowsky, Andrew Kondrich, Felipe Petroski Such, Henrique Ponde de Oliveira Pinto, Jiayi Weng, Randall Lin, Youlong Cheng, Nick Ryder, Lauren Itow, Barret Zoph, J…

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Multimodal, Language, Audio, Speech, Vision
Task
Chat, Image generation, Audio generation, Vision-language generation, Table tasks, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Speech recognition (ASR), Speech-to-text
Base model
GPT-4o (Nov 2024)

Size

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Training data
tokens

Training compute

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How it was established
Benchmarks

Availability

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Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Frontier model
Yes
Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement,Significant use

Outperforms GPT-4 Turbo and other models on text and especially on multimodal benchmarks, such as MMLU, GPQA, HumanEval, MMMU, etc See Model Evaluations: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ GPT-4o is now the default model in ChatGPT, so it's one of the most widely used models.

Record confidence
Speculative

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Updates to GPT-4o in ChatGPT (January 29, 2025)
Last updated
3 March 2026

What the numbers mean

About this model

GPT-4o (Jan 2025) was published by OpenAI, in United States of America, in January 2025. The organisation is categorised as industry.

It works in Multimodal, Language, Audio, Speech, Vision, and is recorded as doing chat, Image generation, Audio generation, Vision-language generation, Table tasks, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Speech recognition (ASR), Speech-to-text.

It is derived from GPT-4o (Nov 2024) rather than trained from scratch, which is the usual way a specialised model is produced.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Training and provenance

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: sOTA improvement,Significant use.

Answers

GPT-4o (Jan 2025) — common questions

01

What is GPT-4o (Jan 2025) used for?

GPT-4o (Jan 2025) works in Multimodal, Language, Audio, Speech, Vision, and is recorded as handling chat, Image generation, Audio generation, Vision-language generation, Table tasks, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Speech recognition (ASR), Speech-to-text. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

02

What GPU do I need to run GPT-4o (Jan 2025)?

None. GPT-4o (Jan 2025) is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

03

Is GPT-4o (Jan 2025) open source?

No. GPT-4o (Jan 2025) has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

04

How many parameters does GPT-4o (Jan 2025) have?

No parameter count has been published for GPT-4o (Jan 2025), which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

05

Who created GPT-4o (Jan 2025)?

GPT-4o (Jan 2025) was published by OpenAI, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

06

When was GPT-4o (Jan 2025) released?

GPT-4o (Jan 2025) was published in January 2025.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 3 March 2026

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