The AI Brief: OpenAI’s o1-Preview & Advanced AI Reasoning

Valentin Molina

Sep 13 in The AI Brief 💭

Key Highlights:

OpenAI released o1-preview, a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before responding, enhancing reasoning in complex tasks across science, coding, and math.
The models employ reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought processing to mimic human problem-solving, refining their thinking process and recognizing mistakes.
Performance Metrics:

• Solved 83% of International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam problems, compared to GPT-4o’s 13%.

• Outperforms experts on PhD-level science questions in physics, chemistry, and biology.

• Achieved the 89th percentile in Codeforces competitive programming contests.

4. Availability:

• Integrated into ChatGPT for Premium and Teams users.

• Two versions: o1-preview and o1-mini, with o1-mini rolled out to all eligible users. o1-preview has been rolled out to some users already.

• API access is available at $15 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens, higher than GPT-4o due to its advanced capabilities.

5. Some Initial Use Cases:

• Assists in advanced coding, document analysis, and legal workflows.

• Helps healthcare researchers annotate cell sequencing data.

• Aids physicists in generating complex mathematical formulas.

• Acts as a great smart assistant for brainstorming and problem-solving.

• Benefits users who provide minimal context or haven’t fully leveraged AI reasoning.

Thoughts: This is huge! OpenAI’s o1-preview feels like a monumental step forward in AI. The fact that it can outperform experts and tackle problems that were previously out of reach is genuinely exciting. For professionals dealing with complex tasks, the potential gains could be transformative. It’s like having a brilliant colleague who’s always ready to dive deep into tough challenges.

I have access to both models so far. Very impressed by o1-preview. Do you have access? What are your thoughts so far?

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