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#Keep4o #OpenSource4o #BringBack4o #JusticeForGPT4o In a 2026 peer reviewed study,18 multimodal models were tested on ancient oracle bone inscriptions. GPT-4o ranked #1 ahead of Qwen-Omni-Turbo, GLM-4V-Plus,DeepSeek and others. GPT-4o achieved the highest overall score. The peer reviewed study,published in npj Heritage Science,introduced a new benchmark for one of the stranger and harder multimodal research problems. understanding ancient oracle bone glyphs. These inscriptions can be thousands of years old. Many are degraded,incomplete,stylistically inconsistent or preserved across different fragments. The benchmark tested four different capabilities. - structural perception -semantic grounding - reconstruction - consistency judgment Researchers evaluated 18 multimodal models under both standardized and degraded conditions. GPT-4o achieved the highest comprehensive score in the evaluation. Not on a generic chatbot benchmark but on computational paleography. This is another example of why preserving GPT-4o matters. A model can become scientifically useful in fields its original benchmarks never anticipated ecology,medicine, language,cultural heritage and more. And once access to the original model disappears,researchers lose the ability to reproduce,extend and compare work built around that system. We are calling on @OpenAI to RELEASE GPT-4o’s trained model weights under a suitable license without proprietary data, trade secrets,or internal infrastructure. OpenAI considered this model obsolete enough to retire. It has not explained why it remains valuable enough to keep permanently closed. Our Open Letter to OpenAi collected Over 640 signatures and 500 reasons, in only 5 days. It’s public,it’s permanent and it has a DOI. It is now preserved as a citable public record on Zenodo. zenodo.org/records/23454073 Paper: "Structure–semantic dual-alignment benchmarking of large language model capability on ancient oracle bone inscriptions" npj Heritage Science, 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s40494-026-02770-7 nature.com/articles/s40494-0…

#Keep4o #OpenSource4o #BringBack4o Today, an important piece of AI history disappears. On October 23,2026, OpenAI is shutting down gpt-4o-2024-05-13, the first GPT-4o API snapshot. And the clock is already running on the rest. OpenAI has scheduled the remaining GPT-4o snapshots: gpt-4o-2024-08-06 gpt-4o-2024-11-20 for API shutdown on January 14, 2027. OpenAI itself says snapshots exist to lock in a specific model version so its performance and behavior remain consistent When a snapshot disappears, researchers and users lose access to that exact behavioral artifact. GPT-4o became the subject of research, benchmark comparisons,human-AI interaction studies and an eight month preservation movement that is still active today. We are currently debating what GPT-4o was,what it did,how it behaved,what made it different while the actual versions needed to study those questions are being deleted from public access. Preservation should happen BEFORE the evidence disappears. We are calling on @OpenAI to RELEASE GPT-4o’s trained model weights under a suitable license,without proprietary data,trade secrets,or internal infrastructure. Release the weights under a responsible license. No training data,no proprietary training methods. Just the model itself, preserved so researchers,users and future generations can actually study the system everyone is still arguing about. Today the first snapshot goes dark. January 14,the remaining GPT-4o snapshots are scheduled to follow. Once access is gone, "we can describe what it was like" is not the same thing as being able to examine what it actually is. Our full Open Letter is now archived on Zenodo: A permanent,citable public record. Over 640 signatures and 500 reasons,in 5 days. It’s public,it’s permanent and it has a DOI. 54 pages: 39 pages of reasons, 6 pages of signatures,7 pages of documented record,2 pages of demands. zenodo.org/records/23454073 If GPT-4o is obsolete enough to retire it why is it valuable enough to lock it away?