Tech Desk
Sep 14, 2024
OpenAI is launching its long-rumoured “Strawberry” model as “o1” as the first-ever model with “reasoning” abilities trained to address more complex queries.
However, alongside the new o1 model, the AI firm is also releasing its o1-mini which is considered its smaller and cheaper version.
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What is o1 model?
According to OpenAI, the new model is capable of reasoning through complex tasks and can solve more challenging problems than previous models.
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown confirmed in a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that the two models were the same as OpenAI’s Strawberry project and focused on improved reasoning in the company's models.
"I'm excited to share with you all the fruit of our effort at OpenAI to create AI models capable of truly general reasoning," Brown added.
Notably, OpenAI also revealed that the o1 model scored 83% on the qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, compared with 13% for its previous model, GPT-4o.
Moreover, the model also improved performance on competitive programming questions and exceeded human PhD-level accuracy on a benchmark of science problems, the company added.
o1 and o1-mini pricing and availability
In the API, o1-preview costs $15 per 1 million input tokens and $60 per 1 million output tokens quite expensive compared to GPT-4o costs $5 per 1 million input tokens and $15 per 1 million output tokens.
Currently, both the o1 and o1-mini models model are accessible to all ChatGPT Plus and Team users starting from Thursday while Enterprise and Edu users will get access early next week.
However, the company plans to bring o1-mini access to all the free users of ChatGPT but hasn’t confirmed a release date yet.
The o1 model is OpenAI’s step towards its goal of human-like artificial intelligence and does a better job at writing code and solving multistep problems than previous models.
