OpenAI's plan to celebrate the holiday season with the 12 Days of OpenAI started with a gift for ChatGPT users and a possible envelope full of cash for the company. The company announced the official launch of the OpenAI o1 model for ChatGPT and a new $200 subscription tier for businesses called ChatGPT Pro.
OpenAI o1 debuted as a preview option for ChatGPT a few months ago, with the company boasting about the model's improved logic and reasoning capabilities. The model breaks questions and tasks into smaller parts and solves them before responding to the user. The idea is that OpenAI o1 improves the accuracy and usefulness of ChatGPT responses. The preview had its highlights, but the general release is several steps ahead and includes more features.
According to OpenAI testing, OpenAI o1 can solve 83% of the problems in the International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam, a huge improvement over GPT-4o, which only scored 13%. The new model makes fewer errors than the preliminary version, reducing major errors by 34%. The response time of the model is also improved, which is key since the preliminary version was noticeably slower than the GPT-4o.
It's not just about raw problem-solving power, either. The general release of OpenAI o1 adds the missing image processing functionality available with GPT-4o but with the improved logic of the new model. You can upload photos and the model can analyze, explain or even create step-by-step guides based on what they see. It can transcribe handwriting, estimate relative size, and even explain how a random part fits into a larger machine.
You can see how it works in a post about X from OpenAI below.
OpenAI o1 is no longer available in preview on ChatGPT. What has changed since the preview version? A faster, more powerful reasoning model that's better at coding, math, and writing. o1 now also supports image uploading, allowing you to apply reasoning to visual elements for more detailed and useful answers. pic.twitter.com/hrLiID3MhJDecember 5, 2024
$200 ChatGPT Pro
The power of OpenAI o1 comes with a commensurate cost in computing power, which is why free ChatGPT users and even those who pay $20 for ChatGPT Plus won't have unlimited access to the new model.
If you want that, you'll have to pay ten times the price of ChatGPT Plus for ChatGPT Pro. Because of that price, the $200 monthly fee is aimed at businesses and professional groups, but it comes with unlimited access to the new model. ChatGPT Pro also includes better and exclusive versions of the GPT-4o model and Advanced Voice feature. OpenAI is also creating a grant program to give medical researchers free access to ChatGPT Pro.
Even with usage limits, OpenAI o1 is an undeniable improvement over GPT-4o that ChatGPT users on the free and $20 tier will want to play with. OpenAI o1 is no GPT-5, the huge update OpenAI fans are waiting for, but it's nothing.
With rumors of stalled progress on recent AI models, OpenAI will need OpenAI o1 and whatever else it has announced over the next 11 days to stay ahead of growing competition from companies like Google Gemini, Meta AI, and other AI chatbots. .
Of course, the bigger question is how the new model's sense of humor compares to its preview form. Judging by this real example, there is still a lot of work to be done:
“Santa tries to get LLM to solve a math problem
Push too hard and it doesn't work
How did you fix it?
Used reindeer application learning”
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