So if i have fine tuned models on gpt4.1 mini and openai deprecates it does this mean my model will never be used for inference? So i would have wasted money and compute on it? For SFT only gpt4.1 variants are available and for RL only o4-mini is available so if im not wrong the degree of freedom to…

o4-mini already has a shutoff date later in 2026. That was the first sign that fine-tuning was doomed. gpt-4.1 series has not appeared in the deprecation list with a shutoff date. I anticipate you will have six months of deprecation notice before shutoff, and like the notice says, model shutoff is …

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It seems they have given up on ft for now, at least until we get some Stargates up and running with some gpu power to spare…

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