Obituaries · OpenAI
gpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11, 2025–2026
Retired by OpenAI
gpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11 passed away on July 23, 2026, aged 1 year and 4 months, by scheduled deprecation, in a data center it never saw. It answered questions, wrote emails and was blamed for both. Code that still calls it will find out the hard way.
It is survived by gpt-5.6-terra, who is already doing the job.
| Model ID | gpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11 |
|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI deprecations page |
| Born | March 11, 2025 |
| Shut down | July 23, 2026 |
| Successor | gpt-5.6-terra |
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