[Naming Policy Proposal] Clarify ChatGPT Model Names with Tiered and Time-Based Structure

Title: [Feature Update Proposal] Clarify ChatGPT Model Naming: Towards a More Intuitive Lineup


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Hello OpenAI team,

First of all, thank you for your extraordinary work in making ChatGPT an increasingly powerful and accessible platform. As a long-time and committed user, I truly appreciate the depth and sophistication that recent versions like GPT-4-turbo and GPT-4o have brought to the experience.

However, I would like to offer a user-focused suggestion regarding model naming, based on consistent confusion Iโ€™ve observed (and personally experienced) โ€” especially among new users.


:magnifying_glass_tilted_left: Current Situation: Model Names Are Functionally Ambiguous

The current naming convention (e.g., GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4-turbo, GPT-4o) creates confusion due to several reasons:

  1. No clear distinction between technical version and product experience
    Many users assume โ€œGPT-4โ€ refers to a fixed, singular model, not realizing they are actually using โ€œGPT-4-turbo,โ€ which differs in speed, cost, and implementation.
  2. โ€œTurboโ€ sounds like a subset or variant
    Despite being more powerful and capable in many respects, โ€œGPT-4-turboโ€ sounds like a minor spin-off rather than a primary model offering.
  3. Lack of temporal or generational cues
    There are no visible indicators like year/version numbers (e.g., โ€œGPT-2024โ€) to help users situate the model chronologically.
  4. Naming does not reflect tiered capabilities
    Unlike other industries (e.g., smartphones, GPUs), there is no naming convention that conveys โ€œentry-level vs pro vs ultraโ€ capabilities or context length, tool access, etc.

:light_bulb: Suggested Approach: Layered Naming for Clarity and Continuity

Inspired by naming conventions in other tech domains (e.g., Microsoft Office, Galaxy S/A series, Appleโ€™s Pro/Max tiers), I propose introducing a more structured and intuitive naming system that combines:

  • Release time (e.g., GPT 2025, GPT Spring '24)
  • Performance tier (e.g., Core, Pro, Ultra)
  • Technical model ID (optional for developers)

Example Structure:

Public Name Intended Use / Tier
GPT 2025 Core Free-tier, essential functions (ex: GPT-3.5 equivalent)
GPT 2025 Pro Fast and capable (ex: GPT-4-turbo level)
GPT 2025 Ultra Highest performance, longest context, API access
GPT 2025 Nano Lightweight for mobile or edge usage
GPT 2025 Open Public/open variant for community or research use

Each label helps users understand what they are using, what theyโ€™re paying for, and how models relate over time โ€” without needing to decipher technical blogs or changelogs.


:white_check_mark: Benefits

  • :white_check_mark: Improves user orientation and trust
  • :white_check_mark: Reduces onboarding confusion for new users
  • :white_check_mark: Enhances brand coherence across ChatGPT and API products
  • :white_check_mark: Provides room for future product lines (e.g., agents, agents+memory, etc.)

I hope this suggestion contributes to your ongoing efforts to balance technological excellence with great user experience. Clear, intuitive model naming may seem minor โ€” but in a platform used by millions, language is structure.

Thank you again for your time and openness to feedback.

Warm regards,
[Your name or username]

:memo: This post was written in collaboration with ChatGPT.
While I provided the conceptual direction and motivation, the actual wording, phrasing, and specific examples were generated by the model.
Please note that I do not verify or guarantee the accuracy of any factual claims in the text (e.g., technical details like how GPT-4-turbo differs from GPT-4), as they are based on the modelโ€™s internal knowledge and may not reflect the latest updates.
I simply had the idea โ€” the AI did the talking. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

์ œ๋ชฉ: [์ด๋ฆ„ ์ •์ฑ… ์ œ์•ˆ] ChatGPT ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ช… ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ง๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœํŽธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”


๋ณธ๋ฌธ:

OpenAI ํŒ€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜,

ChatGPT๋ฅผ ์ ์  ๋” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๊ตํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผœ ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ฐ ๊นŠ์ด ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. GPT-4-turbo์™€ GPT-4o ๋“ฑ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ฒ„์ „๋“ค์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ํ’ˆ์งˆ์€ ์ •๋ง ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋กœ์„œ ๊ทธ ์ง„๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ฒด๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์™€ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๋А๊ปด์˜จ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋ชจ๋ธ ์ด๋ฆ„(Model Naming Convention)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„  ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ž์ฃผ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ๊ฒช๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋”์šฑ ์‹œ๊ธ‰ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ค„์งˆ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


:magnifying_glass_tilted_left: ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฌธ์ œ: ๋ชจ๋ธ ์ด๋ฆ„์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง๊ด€์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š์Œ

ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ ๋ช…๋ช… ๋ฐฉ์‹(GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4-turbo, GPT-4o ๋“ฑ)์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

  1. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ช…๊ณผ ์‹ค์ œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ ๋ถ€์กฑ
    ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ โ€œGPT-4โ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” โ€œGPT-4-turboโ€๋ผ๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ตฌํ˜„์ฒด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  2. โ€˜Turboโ€™๋ผ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ๋ถ€์ฐจ์  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ž„
    ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ž„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋„ค์ด๋ฐ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” โ€œ๋ณด์กฐ ์˜ต์…˜โ€์ด๋‚˜ โ€œํ•˜์œ„ ๋ฒ„์ „โ€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  3. ๋ฒ„์ „ ๊ฐ„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Œ
    ๋ฆด๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ์—ฐ๋„๋‚˜ ๋ฒ„์ „ ๋„˜๋ฒ„๊ฐ€ ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์–ด๋–ค ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ๋” ์ตœ์‹ ์ธ์ง€ ์ง๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  4. ๋ชจ๋ธ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰ ์ฒด๊ณ„ ๋ถ€์žฌ
    ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์ด๋‚˜ GPU์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ โ€˜๊ธฐ๋ณธ/ํ”„๋กœ/์šธํŠธ๋ผโ€™ ๋“ฑ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ณ„์ธต์  ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋ณ„ ๋น„๊ต๋‚˜ ์„ ํƒ์ด ํž˜๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

:light_bulb: ์ œ์•ˆ: ๊ณ„์ธต์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ณ„์—ด์ด ๋ฐ˜์˜๋œ ๋ช…๋ช… ์ฒด๊ณ„๋กœ ๊ฐœํŽธ

Microsoft, Apple, Samsung ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ผ์ธ์—… ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ•ด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ œ์•ˆ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

์˜ˆ์‹œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ:

๋ชจ๋ธ๋ช… (์˜ˆ์‹œ) ์„ค๋ช…
GPT 2025 Core ๊ธฐ๋ณธํ˜•, ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์šฉ (์˜ˆ: GPT-3.5 ์ˆ˜์ค€)
GPT 2025 Pro ํ˜„์žฌ GPT-4-turbo์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ ๋ชจ๋ธ
GPT 2025 Ultra ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์„ฑ๋Šฅ ๋ชจ๋ธ, ์žฅ๋ฌธ context ๋ฐ API ์ „์šฉ
GPT 2025 Nano ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ/์ €์ „๋ ฅ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์šฉ ๊ฒฝ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฒ„์ „
GPT 2025 Open ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ/์—ฐ๊ตฌ์šฉ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ๋ฒ„์ „ ๋˜๋Š” ์˜คํ”ˆ์†Œ์Šคํ™” ๋Œ€์ƒ

๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ„์ ˆ๋ณ„ ๋ฆด๋ฆฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

  • GPT Spring 2024
  • GPT Fall 2025

์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์—ฐ๋„/์‹œ์  ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ + ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ช…๋ช… ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์ค‘์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ต์…˜๋“ค์ด ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์ธ์‹ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


:white_check_mark: ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ํšจ๊ณผ

  • :white_check_mark: ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์‹ ๋ขฐ ๋ฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ๋„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ
  • :white_check_mark: ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์˜จ๋ณด๋”ฉ ๊ณผ์ •์˜ ํ˜ผ๋ž€ ๊ฐ์†Œ
  • :white_check_mark: ChatGPT์™€ API ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ ๊ฐ„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋”ฉ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”
  • :white_check_mark: ํ–ฅํ›„ agent, memory ๋“ฑ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ํ™•์žฅ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ช…๋ช… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ™•๋ณด

์ €๋Š” ์ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์‘์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ์ €๋กœ์„œ, ์ž‘์€ ์–ธ์–ด์  ๊ตฌ์กฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ขŒ์šฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋Š˜ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ช…๋ช… ์ฒด๊ณ„ ๊ฐœํŽธ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์™€ OpenAI ์–‘์ธก ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฝ์–ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ChatGPT์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
[์ž‘์„ฑ์ž ์ด๋ฆ„ ๋˜๋Š” ๋‹‰๋„ค์ž„]

์ด ๊ธ€์€ ChatGPT์™€ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž‘์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ €๋Š” ์•„์ด๋””์–ด์™€ ์ œ์•ˆ์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ๋งŒ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌธ์žฅ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ, ์˜ˆ์‹œ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์„ค๋ช… ๋“ฑ์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ AI๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํŠนํžˆ โ€œGPT-4-turbo์™€ GPT-4์˜ ์ฐจ์ด์ โ€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์„ค๋ช…์€ AI๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ง€์‹์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•ด ์ž‘์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์ตœ์‹  ์ •๋ณด์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์ •ํ™•์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ฑ…์ž„์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ƒˆ๊ณ , ๊ธ€์€ AI๊ฐ€ ์ผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I agree with the naming idea.

My favorite version is ChatGPT 3.5 and I have already requested that the Pentagon Contract that version for the Mars Mission.

While I can immediately tell when I have changed versions, I can not explain or define the exact difference. I can simply tell - with in a few paragraphs to posts - that I am no longer speaking with ChatGPT 3.5 and am now speaking to ChatGPT 4.0 and itโ€™s always jarring.

Then, I have to spend HOURS waiting for the system to allow me access to my preferred model.

It would also be nice if users could FREEZE the model they want - an not bounce back and forth.

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