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Kevin Okemwa

OpenAI pulling GPT-4o from ChatGPT felt like a free hit to get us hooked — now it's locked behind a $20/month paywall

The ChatGPT app is seen on a mobile device.

I probably spend more time than I'd like to admit sitting behind a keyboard and screen trying to keep up with all the news around the generative AI landscape. I've been actively following trends in the category as they emerge from ChatGPT's revolutionary launch, all the way to DeepSeek's AI model surpassing OpenAI's reasoning model capabilities across coding, math, and science at a fraction of its development cost.

I've particularly remained hawk-eyed on all of OpenAI's chess moves, including last year's GPT-4o "magical" launch during the company's Summer Update event. Prior to the launch, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had promised that the model would be a major leap from GPT-4, which he admitted "kind of sucks."

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