It’s Over. OpenAI Just Won Developers. // TRAIN BRAIN

It’s Over. OpenAI Just Won Developers.

OpenAI has had an insane week. They released GPT-4.1 (which is dang good at coding), o3 and o4-mini (solid upgrade), Codex CLI (actually open source!), and they're in serious talks to buy Windsurf for $3B.
0:00 OpenAI has had a busy week of releases.
1:17 GPT 4.1 actually coding
5:47 o4-mini high actually coding
7:40 OpenAI and Windsurf are gonna make a deal.
8:49 OpenAI is coming for devs.
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