OpenAI has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model, called o1, which the company says can perform complex reasoning tasks more effectively than its predecessors. The release comes as OpenAI faces increasing competition in the race to develop more sophisticated AI systems.

O1 was trained to “spend more time thinking through problems before reacting, much like a human would,” OpenAI said on its website. “Through training, (the models) learn to refine their thought process, try different strategies, and recognize their mistakes.” OpenAI envisions the new model being used by healthcare researchers to annotate cell sequencing data, by physicists to generate mathematical formulas, and by software developers.

Current AI systems are essentially more sophisticated versions of autocomplete, generating answers through statistics rather than actually “thinking through” a question, meaning they are less “intelligent” than they appear to be. When Engadget tried to get ChatGPT and other AI chatbots to New York Times With the Spelling Bee, for example, they tinkered around and produced nonsensical results.

With o1, the company claims it is “resetting the counter to 1” with a new type of AI model designed to actually enable complex problem-solving and logical reasoning. In a blog post detailing the new model, OpenAI said it performed similarly to PhD students on challenging benchmark tasks in physics, chemistry and biology, and excelled in math and programming. For example, its current flagship model, GPT-4o, solved only 13 percent of the problems correctly on a qualifying exam for the International Mathematical Olympiad, while o1 solved 83 percent.

However, the new model does not offer features such as surfing the Internet or uploading files and images. And according to The edgeit is significantly slower at processing prompts than GPT-4o. Although o1 has more time to test its results, it has not solved the problem of “hallucinations” – a term for AI models that invent information. “We can’t say we’ve solved hallucinations,” said Bob McGrew, the company’s chief research officer. The edge.

O1 is still in its early stages. OpenAI calls it a “preview” and starting today is making it available only to paying ChatGPT customers, with restrictions on the number of questions they can ask per week. In addition, OpenAI is also launching o1-mini, a stripped-down version that the company says is particularly effective for coding.