OpenAI’s expensive new model claims to solve problems like a doctoral candi

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• OpenAI’s o1-preview has arrived as the eagerly anticipated “Strawberry” model, offering advanced math and coding skills.
• The system dedicates extra steps to processing queries, trying different steps and “thinking” through the problem.
• There’s also a cheaper, faster o1-mini model that’s positioned more towards casual use.

All summer long, AI enthusiasts have been looking forward to the next big release from OpenAI, after our first teases about a next-gen project called Strawberry. The model would supposedly offer some big improvements over GPT-4, specifically when it comes to tasks involving programming, mathematics, and logical reasoning. Understandably, we’ve been excited to check out what it can do, and while we just heard the other day that Strawberry could land within the next two weeks, it’s gone ahead and made its debut already, arriving as OpenAI’s o1-preview.

While the new name makes clear that this is still an early look at what the model can handle, initial results already look really impressive, demonstrating an almost human-like ability to explain the “thought” process behind the model’s responses. OpenAI credits this performance on the further processing steps the o1-preview dedicates to generating its answers.




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