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OpenAI plans to retire several models from ChatGPT on February 13, including GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, and o4-mini, saying only 0.1% of users still choose GPT-4o — OpenAI announced it will retire several mod…
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Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft’s Foundry service (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft’s Foundry service — AI startup Perplexity signed a $750 million deal with Microso…