First impressions of ChatGPT o1: An AI designed to overthink it

Maxwell Zeff 12:01 PM PDT • September 13, 2024

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OpenAI released its new o1 models on Thursday, giving ChatGPT users their first chance to try AI models that pause to “think” before they answer. There’s been a lot of hype building up to these models, codenamed “Strawberry” inside OpenAI. But does Strawberry live up to the hype?

Compared to GPT-4o, the o1 models feel like one step forward and two steps back. ChatGPT o1 excels at reasoning and answering complex questions, but the model is roughly four times more expensive to use than GPT-4o. OpenAI’s this is a heading latest model lacks the tools, multimodal capabilities, and speed that made GPT-4o so impressive. In fact, OpenAI even admits that “GPT-4o is still the best option for most prompts” on its help page, and notes elsewhere that GPT o1 struggles at simpler tasks.

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