The news: OpenAI is set to release five new models, including GPT-4.1, 4.1 mini, 4.1 nano, o3, and o4-mini, as soon as this week. More than incremental upgrades, these models mark a shift from chatbots to models that can hypothesize and ideate across disciplines.
This development couldn’t come at a better time for OpenAI given the rising competition from Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, and now even ByteDance that is chipping away at the ChatGPT-maker’s market lead.
Why it’s worth watching: OpenAI’s new AI models can spark fresh scientific breakthroughs.