OpenAI has unveiled new artificial intelligence (AI) models for complex reasoning tasks that can solve much harder problems than before, and you can use them now.
Both ChatGPT and the OpenAI API now have new “o1” AI models available as a preview. OpenAI has trained the latest models to spend more time thinking and considering all the possible options, which supposedly makes them particularly effective in science, coding, and math. While the new models can’t yet fetch current information from the web or use files and images for context, they’re already on par with PhD students in physics, chemistry, and biology.
“In a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), GPT-4o correctly solved only 13% of problems, while the reasoning model scored 83%,” the company said. “Through training, they learn to refine their thinking process, try different strategies, and recognize their mistakes.”
OpenAI provides a few examples of how the new AI models might be used in real life, including annotating cell sequencing data, generating complicated mathematical formulas for quantum optics, executing multi-step workflows, etc. It also provides a more affordable and faster reasoning model, o1-mini, that developers can integrate to build apps “that require reasoning but not broad world knowledge.” The company came up with a new safety training system to enable the new models to “reason about our safety rules in context,” which should let them apply the rules more effectively.
“One way we measure safety is by testing how well our model continues to follow its safety rules if a user tries to bypass them (known as jailbreaking),” it explains. “On one of our hardest jailbreaking tests, GPT-4o scored 22 (on a scale of 0-100) while our o1-preview model scored 84.”
If you use ChatGPT+ or ChatGPT Team, you can access these new o1 models in the app. Just choose “o1-preview” or “o1-mini,” with their weekly rate limits set to 30 and 50 messages, respectively. ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu users will get access to both models beginning next week. The o1-mini model will also come to free ChatGPT users, but OpenAI hasn’t said when.
Source: OpenAI
