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Homepage > News > Tech > OpenAI launches ‘better and cheaper’ GPT-4.1 GPT-4.1, the latest and much-improved artificial intelligence (AI) model, is here. According to OpenAI, it’s cheaper, more powerful, has better reasoning than its predecessors, and is a cut above its rivals.  OpenAI launched GPT-4.1 this week alongside the smaller and more affordable GPT-4.1 Mini and GPT-4.1 Nano, which the company says is its “smallest, fastest, and cheapest” model. The new models are only available via the company’s API, not directly via ChatGPT.  The new model is geared toward developers in what has become a race between AI companies to create a model that can handle complex programming tasks. Sarah Friar, the company’s CFO, described it as an “agentic software engineer,” which she believes could completely replace humans in coding. In an accompanying statement, a spokesperson noted that the model integrated a lot of feedback from developers and beats most rivals in “frontend coding, making fewer extraneous edits, following formats reliably, adhering to response structure and ordering, consistent tool usage, and more.” OpenAI says GPT-4.1 scored 55% on the SWE-bench test, which assesses a model’s ability to identify real-world software bugs. While it’s a significant improvement over the 33% that GPT-4o scored, it still lags behind Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Gemini Pro 2.5 (63.8%) and Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet (62%). The new model’s standout feature is its improved context window. The firm says that all three models “can handle up to a million tokens of context.” This translates to around 750,000 words at a go (equivalent to all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems combined). On this metric, it rivals Google’s Gemini and beats Anthropic’s models. Other notable improvements on the new models include the ability to “understand” video content, with the new models hitting 72% accuracy on long videos with no subtitles, which OpenAI says is the best in…

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