u/Reply_Stunning

I went to the toilet and when I came back it said `Goal hit usage limits `

is this a bug

My actual prediction: OpenAI is clearing the runway for a four-oh and GPT-four point five open-weight family.

OpenAI has already crossed the line with Apache-2.0 open weights. GPT-four point five is the obvious research heavyweight: brutally expensive to serve, but immensely valuable to labs and infrastructure companies willing to run it themselves.

Four-oh is the practical counterpart: the conversational model people would actually want to fine-tune and run locally.

Put them together:

• GPT-four point five: research-scale heavyweight. • Four-oh: practical, deployable model. • gpt-oss: the distribution and licensing precedent.

That would turn two superseded model lines into ecosystem assets and put OpenAI back at the centre of local inference.

They may not be burying them.

They may be clearing the runway.