Introducing GPT-4.5

We’re releasing a research preview of GPT‑4.5—our largest and best model for chat yet. GPT‑4.5 is a step forward in scaling up pre-training and post-training. By scaling unsupervised learning, GPT‑4.5 improves its ability to recognize patterns, draw connections, and generate creative insights without reasoning.

Early testing shows that interacting with GPT‑4.5 feels more natural. Its broader knowledge base, improved ability to follow user intent, and greater “EQ” make it useful for tasks like improving writing, programming, and solving practical problems. We also expect it to hallucinate less.

We’re sharing GPT‑4.5 as a research preview to better understand its strengths and limitations. We’re still exploring what it’s capable of and are eager to see how people use it in ways we might not have expected.

We advance AI capabilities by scaling two complementary paradigms: unsupervised learning and reasoning. These represent two axes of intelligence.

1. Unsupervised learning increases world model accuracy and intuition. Models like GPT‑3.5, GPT‑4, and GPT‑4.5 advance this paradigm.
2. Scaling reasoning⁠, on the other hand, teaches models to think and produce a chain of thought before they respond, allowing them to tackle complex STEM or logic problems. Models like OpenAI o1 and OpenAI o3‑mini advance this paradigm.

GPT‑4.5 is an example of scaling unsupervised learning by scaling up compute and data, along with architecture and optimization innovations. GPT‑4.5 was trained on Microsoft Azure AI supercomputers. The result is a model that has broader knowledge and a deeper understanding of the world, leading to reduced hallucinations and more reliability across a wide range of topics.

SimpleQA measures LLM (large language model) factuality on straightforward but challenging knowledge questions.

As we scale our models and they solve more complex problems, it becomes increasingly important to teach them a greater understanding of human needs and intent. For GPT‑4.5, we developed new, scalable techniques that enable training larger and more powerful models with data derived from smaller models. These techniques improve GPT‑4.5’s steerability, understanding of nuance, and natural conversation.

Human preference measures the percentage of queries where testers preferred GPT‑4.5 over GPT‑4o.

Combining deep understanding of the world with improved collaboration results in a model that integrates ideas naturally in warm and intuitive conversations that are more attuned to human collaboration. GPT‑4.5 has a better understanding of what humans mean and interprets subtle cues or implicit expectations with greater nuance and “EQ”. GPT‑4.5 also shows stronger aesthetic intuition and creativity. It excels at helping with writing and design.

GPT‑4.5 doesn’t think before it responds, which makes its strengths particularly different from reasoning models like OpenAI o1. Compared to OpenAI o1 and OpenAI o3‑mini, GPT‑4.5 is a more general-purpose, innately smarter model. We believe reasoning will be a core capability of future models, and that the two approaches to scaling—pre-training and reasoning—will complement each other. As models like GPT‑4.5 become smarter and more knowledgeable through pre-training, they will serve as an even stronger foundation for reasoning and tool-using agents.

Each increase in model capabilities is also an opportunity to make the models safer. GPT‑4.5 was trained with new techniques for supervision that are combined with traditional supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) methods like those used for GPT‑4o. We hope this work will serve as a foundation for aligning even more capable future models.

To stress-test our improvements, we conducted a suite of safety tests before deployment, in accordance with our Preparedness Framework⁠(opens in a new window)⁠. We found that scaling the GPT paradigm contributed to capability improvements across our evaluations. We are publishing the detailed results from these evaluations in the accompanying system card⁠.

Starting today, ChatGPT Pro users will be able to select GPT‑4.5 in the model picker on web, mobile, and desktop. We will begin rolling out to Plus and Team users next week, then to Enterprise and Edu users the following week.

GPT‑4.5 has access to the latest up-to-date information with search, supports file and image uploads, and can use canvas to work on writing and code. However, GPT‑4.5 does not currently support multimodal features like Voice Mode, video, and screensharing in ChatGPT. In the future, we will work to simplify the user experience so AI “just works” for you.

We’re also previewing GPT‑4.5 in the Chat Completions API, Assistants API, and Batch API to developers on all paid usage tiers⁠(opens in a new window). The model supports key features like function calling, Structured Outputs, streaming, and system messages. It also supports vision capabilities through image inputs.

Based on early testing, developers may find GPT‑4.5 particularly useful for applications that benefit from its higher emotional intelligence and creativity—such as writing help, communication, learning, coaching, and brainstorming. It also shows strong capabilities in agentic planning and execution, including multi-step coding workflows and complex task automation.

GPT‑4.5 is a very large and compute-intensive model, making it more expensive⁠ than and not a replacement for GPT‑4o. Because of this, we’re evaluating whether to continue serving it in the API long-term as we balance supporting current capabilities with building future models. We look forward to learning more about its strengths, capabilities, and potential applications in real-world settings. If GPT‑4.5 delivers unique value for your use case, your feedback⁠(opens in a new window) will play an important role in guiding our decision.

With every new order of magnitude of compute comes novel capabilities. GPT‑4.5 is a model at the frontier of what is possible in unsupervised learning. We continue to be surprised by the creativity of the community in uncovering new abilities and unexpected use cases. With GPT‑4.5, we invite you to explore the frontier of unsupervised learning and uncover novel capabilities with us.

Below, we provide GPT‑4.5’s results on standard academic benchmarks to illustrate its current performance on tasks traditionally associated with reasoning. Even by purely scaling up unsupervised learning, GPT‑4.5 shows meaningful improvements over previous models like GPT‑4o. Still, we look forward to gaining a more complete picture of GPT‑4.5’s capabilities through this release, because we recognize academic benchmarks don’t always reflect real-world usefulness.