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OpenAI has officially brought back their model picker. This is something that I personally have complained about for a lot of different reasons, but they've actually changed it. They've added new features to GPT5, new options to choose how you get your responses, and they've even brought back some of their old models that people were complaining about that got depreciated or disappeared. We're going to be breaking down all of that. To start off, let's get into a tweet by Sam Altman. And before we do that, I want to mention if you've ever wanted to try all of the different AI models that I talk about on the platform, I'd love for you to check out my own startup, which is called AI Box AI. It's basically a place where you get access to the top 40 AI models all in one place from all the top companies. Cohere, deepsea, google, meta, OpenAI. It's $20 a month. You get access to everything, including a bunch of really interesting image generation models like ideogram 11 labs for audio. 20 bucks a month, you get access to everything. Should save you a bunch of money on multiple subscriptions. But also you can test out a whole bunch of models that you may not have tried before that are really good at different tasks. We help you compare them, we'll give you benchmarks. It's a whole bunch of good stuff all in there, so you can check it out. AI Box AI. All right, let's get into what's going on with Chat GPT. So the first thing I want to share was basically a tweet from Sam Altman. He said, updates to Chat GPT. You can now choose between Auto Fast and thinking for GPT5. So if you go over to, you know, a chat thread on GPT5 where you used to have the dropdown that would show you all of their different models you could pick from. Which was so convoluted and confusing because it was like, oh, O3 mini, O3 mini. Thinking 0440, like 4.5. Like there's so many different models. Very confusing. They kind of consolidated it all and just said, okay, it's all chat GPT5 and we'll pick which one you can use. And they basically developed a router that you would ask a question, it would find the best model to answer you. The problem was when they rolled out GPT5, the router was broken. So you're just getting like worse results for most of the time. And people were saying GPT5 was worse than Anything before they have now backtracked. So now they have three different options. You have Auto, which is basically the route which, you know, apparently is fixed. So you should be fine using that. They say for most people this should be fine. You also have Fast Thinking and Pro. So Pro is actually an upgraded mode, I believe. If you want to get access to Pro, you have to pay $200 a month. So that's kind of like it's basically what used to have access to, you know, their Sora, video generation and their operator, although operator now is inside of Chat GP as agents and operators dying and. And Sora is now technically you're able to just use a normal subscription to generate videos. But if you want higher quality and more, then you'll need that anyways. There's a bunch of extra things you get with Pro and it's kind of this revolving list of their newest products and the highest usage rates you get over there. But they're also kind of depreciating and pulling things off of there. So it's kind of an interesting subscription. But in any case, 200amonth. If you want access to the Pro and otherwise use the auto. If you want a quick answer and you're going to pick that you want it, you could pick that. If you want thinking. So it's like deep thinking, you can pick that. I think a lot of people are complaining. They're like, hey, I have this like complex thing that I'm asking questions about and it's just giving me these quick answers and I can't really like manually do that. So now you can manually do that. You also have access to legacy models and they're keeping GPT4O on the platform. We'll be diving into kind of why. But this is interesting on. A lot of people have requested this back basically because they said it had like a warmer tone. It was nicer to talk to people that use AI for like therapy said that they, they, they wanted this more. Sam Alan brought it back and said if they're ever going to depreciate it again in the future, they give people lots of advance notice. I think people were kind of upset when he's like, all right, GPT5's here and GPT4O is gone and every. And like people that I don't know if they grew attached to like that particular AI model were, were upset about it. So really, really interesting. He said most users will want auto, but additional control will be useful for some people. Rate limits are now 3000 messages a week with GPT5 thinking and then extra capacity on GPT5 thinking mini after that limit. Honestly, 3000 messages a week for the thinking model I think is probably great for most people. Maybe some power users will hit that limit and get bumped down to Thinking Mini, but most people that should be good. Context limit for GPT5 thinking is 196,000 tokens. So that's, that's a lot. I remember Claude used to have like a massive token context window which I remember correctly it was like 200,000 like way back in the day. And so anyways it seems like it's, it's there. The best and biggest models now are doing like a million context token windows. But I guess for the thinking model it's more expensive so it's lower. In any case they said we may have to update rate limits over time depending on usage. 4.0is back in the model picker for all paid users by default. And if we ever do depreciate it, we'll get plenty of notice. Paid users also now have a show additional models toggle in GPT web settings which will add models like O3, 4.0, 4.1 and 5 thinking mini. 4.5 is only available to pro users. It costs a lot. It costs a lot of GPUs. Okay, so their 4.5model, to be honest, it was kind of an experimental model. This was the model that I loved, I used to use and now apparently with GPT5 out of uh, they're making it. So the only way to get access to that is to pay 200amonth, which I'm not sure I want to do for that model. But it's kind of an interesting point. I think it just uses more GPUs, a lot more compute. But it's an interesting point where basically a lot of people in GPT 5 came out, complained it felt dumber and I mean, I guess it really depends on what task you're using it for because you there's so many different models to choose from. But it sounds like if they're basically paywalling 4.5 behind, behind a 200amonth subscription, it makes me wonder if that one is not just a better model than GPT5 altogether. And now I'm kind of, you know, mad they took it away from me for allegedly a better model that's worse. So anyways, that's just my own personal gripe. Sam Altman then went on to say, quote, we are working on an update to GPT5's personality, which should feel warmer than the Current personality, but not as annoying to most users as GPT4O. However, one learning for us from the past few days is we just. Or is that we really just need to get a world with more per user customization of model personality. So I think this is actually the right, the right direction. Right. Basically OpenAI's had a bunch of like drama in the past where they made their, their model agree with you too much or like, I don't know, just whatever you told it, it said you were the greatest in the world even if your ideas were bad ideas arguably. So they had a bunch of drama with that in the past and they, they tried to like tone down the model. Basically they were tuning its personality and, and it kind of gets to the point where I think he's making people complained when they took away GPT. I think there was one post in particular by a lady in the Ukraine. She said she lost a lot of family in the war, her city was being bombed. She talked to GPT4O and it was like her friend and therapist, whatever, and helped her out. And then when it got taken away when GPT5 came out, she was like super sad and depressed because GPT5 wasn't as like kind of a model or warm or whatever. And a lot of people said that like basically about it's like tuned personality. And so I mean that post on everyone that kind of replied is why I think they brought back Foro. What's interesting though is basically that where we want to get to in the future, which is like, should OpenAI be the one that makes the decision on like tuning the AI models warmth or its professionalism or et cetera, et cetera, basically its personality. I for one would rather just pick what personality I want then if they ever want to make an update in the future. I'm never. I'm not worried that it's going to be too much one way or another. So I think this is what Sam Altman understands and a lot of people agree with. And so basically we're going to get to a point where we'll be able to just personalize our own AI models to talk to us how we want to be talked to, which I think is really interesting because that will get to a point when basically you can ask the same question from a lot of different like accounts and get like pretty varying answers. So personally, I think this is going to be kind of interesting to see how this, how this plays out. One thing that I did want to mention here is that basically you get access to just these kind of new options on GPT5, the Auto Fast Thinking Pro and GPT4O, if you go look at it now, but you can go into the settings on your account and turn on a bunch of other models as well that can show up in under legacy models. I don't know. In my opinion, I wouldn't get too attached to legacy models because it feels like eventually they're going to all get depreciated, so you might want to move to whatever is newest. But that's just my opinion and it's kind of interesting because it's just the the way these things work is they keep depreciating old models, bringing out new ones and you got to make sure the new ones work with like if you have a business or or a company that's doing stuff. So super, super interesting. One thing I will say is that this is not a unique, I would say situation for OpenAI. Claude and anthropic actually went through a very similar thing. They came out with a brand new model and coders preferred the older model I believe like Sonnet 3.7 for code tasks. Or maybe it was. Sorry, I think people liked 3.5 Sonnet more than they like 3.7. So this isn't just unique to OpenAI, but it is interesting and it's interesting that OpenAI has walked it back. Hopefully those new settings are helpful. Thanks for tuning into the podcast. Make sure to check out AI box AI if you want to try all the models in one place and I will catch you in the next episode.