HR News: OpenAI Launches GPT-4.1; CEO Issues Open Call for Engineers

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OpenAI has announced the launch of three new models via API: GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 Mini, and GPT‑4.1 Nano.

These models deliver significant improvements over GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o Mini, especially in coding, instruction following, and long-context comprehension. Each supports context windows of up to 1 million tokens and comes with an updated knowledge cutoff of June 2024.

Key Performance Highlights of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4.1:

• Coding: GPT‑4.1 achieves 54.6% on SWE-bench Verified—up 21.4 points over GPT‑4o and 26.6 points over GPT‑4.5—making it one of the top coding models available.
• Instruction Following: Scores 38.3% on Scale’s MultiChallenge benchmark, a 10.5-point improvement over GPT‑4o.
• Long-Context Understanding: On Video-MME (long, no subtitles), it sets a new record with 72.0%, outperforming GPT‑4o by 6.7 points.

The company said that "these models were built with real-world tasks in mind—guided by close collaboration with developers to ensure they’re optimized for practical use."

OpenAI will place its new models against Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s upgraded V3.

Sam Altman Issues Open Call for Engineers to Tackle OpenAI’s Growing Infrastructure Needs

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday to issue a direct appeal to engineers, inviting them to join the company amid what he described as an “insane” scale of operations and challenges currently unfolding at OpenAI.

“If you are interested in infrastructure and very large-scale computing systems, the scale of what’s happening at OpenAI right now is insane and we have very hard/interesting challenges,” Altman posted. “Please consider joining us! We could desperately use your help.”
In a follow-up post, Altman highlighted specific skill sets OpenAI is seeking, noting the company is especially interested in individuals with expertise in system optimization, compiler design, and programming languages.

“If you have thought about how to squeeze max performance out of a system, we'd love to talk to you,” he added. “And if you have a background in compiler design or programming language design, we might have something great for you.”
 

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