OpenAI last week released the o1 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models with advanced reasoning capabilities. These AI models are said to be the rumored “Strawberry” model that the company has reportedly been developing for the past few months. The company claimed that these large language models (LLMs), consisting of the o1 and o1-mini, were capable of multi-step reasoning and “thinking like a human.” Now, according to a report, these models are being expanded to the AI company’s enterprise and education customers.
OpenAI o1 AI models come to business and education users
According to a VentureBeat reportThe AI company is now rolling out its latest AI models to ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu subscribers. This means that users will soon see an option to switch to the o1 models while running a prompt. Notably, the AI models were rolled out to Plus and Teams users on the day of the LLMs release.
Even as ChatGPT’s paying subscribers get access to the latest AI model, OpenAI has stated that this is still an “in preview” launch and therefore rate caps will apply. The larger o1 model has a rate cap of 50 queries per week. At launch, the rate cap for the o1 mini was also set to the same value, but the company later increased it to 50 queries per day.
The new o1 series models are designed to solve and execute complex reasoning-based tasks, multi-step mathematical problems and areas that require deeper subject matter expertise. The AI company claims that the AI models take a few minutes to think about the prompt before generating the answer. This mimics a human thought process and allows the AI to think of different possibilities and eliminate any errors, OpenAI pointed out.
Derya Unutmaz, a professor at the nonprofit biomedical research institute The Jackson Laboratory, claimed in a after on X (formerly known as Twitter), claimed that the o1 AI model was capable of writing “a large cancer treatment project based on a very specific immunological approach,” which would have taken him “days, if not longer” to prepare.
Notably, OpenAI has stated that those on ChatGPT’s free tier will also get access to the o1-mini AI model in the coming weeks. The rate cap is expected to be lower than what paying subscribers get.
