Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (IT Home · Oct 11, 2026)

8 Months After GPT-4o Pulled, Fans Petition for Open Weights

KEY FACTS

OpenAI will retire the earliest API snapshot of GPT-4o on October 23.
User BlueBeba proposed an archival open-weight plan on October 7.
A Change.org petition has gathered 23,930 signatures demanding GPT-4o be kept.
OpenAI previously said only 0.1% of users still choose GPT-4o each day.
The opensource4o coalition demands the 4o weights be released under the Apache 2.0 license.

KEY DATA

23,930Petition signatures

0.1%Daily active user share

October 23API snapshot retirement date

472Open-source petition signatures

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Users' emotional attachment to models is becoming a new variable when AI products are retired. A 0.1% usage rate is commercially negligible, but the petition and the vigil show that a model's personified experience is irreplaceable. If OpenAI stays silent, it may push that trust toward the open-source community or competitors.

Source: IT Home report