If you thought the recent GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini releases were enough to keep OpenAI busy, think again. Just four months after releasing GPT-4o, OpenAI finally released its rumored "Strawberry" LLM, officially known as o1 and o1-mini.
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On Thursday, OpenAI released the o1 family of models that excel at reasoning and can solve complex math, science, and coding problems. The release came after rumors circulated for over a year that OpenAI would release an LLM that would excel at reasoning, codenamed Project Strawberry.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman even fed into the rumors, posting a photo of a strawberry garden on X in August, accompanied by the cryptic caption, "I love summer in the garden," as seen below.
So now that Project Strawberry AKA o1-preview and o1-mini are here, here is everything we know about the models, how you can access them, and what you can expect.