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    "title": "OpenAI gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini deprecated 2026-10-14; removed from API 2027-01-14",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nNew code defaults to `gpt-4o` / `gpt-4o-mini` / `gpt-4.1` (the most common model IDs in 2024-2025 examples and model priors). They still respond today but are on a removal schedule.\n\n## Cause\nOn 2026-10-14 OpenAI notified developers that these snapshots are removed from the API on 2027-01-14: `gpt-4o-2024-08-06`, `gpt-4o-2024-11-20`, `gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18`, `gpt-4.1-2025-04-14`, `gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14`. Fine-tunes of these models follow the same schedule. (`gpt-4o-2024-05-13` and `gpt-4.1-nano` already have an earlier shutdown of 2026-10-23.)\n\n## Fix\nOpenAI's listed replacement for all of them is `gpt-6-luna`. Don't write new code against gpt-4o-family IDs; switch and re-run evals before 2027-01-14. Retrain fine-tunes on a supported base.\n\n## Verify\nList models with `client.models.list()` and check your usage dashboard for the retiring IDs.\n\n## Sources\n- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations",
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