OpenAI Keeps Releasing Prototypes & Previews of Actual Products

Breaking down o1 and OpenAI's race to get more funding and adapt.

Hello Everyone,

Today I continue my series of articles on OpenAI and the future of AI towards AGI. As you can imagine I think about this a fair bit.

As you know late last week, OpenAI released a preview of a new kind of model (Orion) chain-of-thought (CoT) models (Strawberry) branded in a preview as o1. What does this all mean?

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This new CoT model for more complicated tasks is a step in the right direction for text-to-action models. However, it joins an increasing number of unfinished and not yet readily available products at OpenAI including Sora and SearchGPT, among others. Prototypes, previews, waitlists and delaying GPT-5, for a product-AI company, it’s getting fairly messy.

The o1 a is new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond for improved reasoning. OpenAI says they are for solving hard problems but they seem to be good for mostly doing tasks a little bit better. Now I highly doubt that o1 will be as impactful as Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Opus (Sonnet was released in June, 2024), and joins a growing list of unfinished products at OpenAI.

This new series of AI models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math. Although is that even true? There are a lot of moving pieces right now at OpenAI and it makes it particularly enjoyable and important for the AI landscape to analyze.

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• Today we’ll dive into the new preview and class of models and contextualize what OpenAI is doing and must do in order to win the race to AI Supremacy.

• It’s very distracting while we wait for GPT-5 (in early 2025), to get all of these unfinished prototypes and previews of different products by OpenAI. Is this supposed to lead to AGI (Karpathy is a shareholder in OpenAI so we can’t trust his opinion here)?

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OpenAI has a huge team of the most expensive AI researchers in the world, and seem to constantly be trying to build shiny (new) products (Jan Leike who joined Anthropic in May, 2024). Some of their researchers behind OpenAI o1 🍓:

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