OpenAI announced this Wednesday that it was about to start your own advent calendar: ’12 Days of OpenAI’, a twelve-day journey in which you discover a new product, tool, function or service from the company that created ChatGPT and that It has been revolutionizing the entire world for two years. The fever for artificial intelligence has reached all corners of the planet, including Spainand the chatbot The world’s most famous generative AI software already has more than 300 million people using it every week.
Although among the most anticipated launches of these twelve days is Sora, the AI tool to generate videos from texts from OpenAI that was recently leaked by a group of angry artiststhis Thursday’s discovery was not that. In exchange, The company led by Sam Altman has presented an update to its o1 model, whose project code name has been Strawberry.
When the streamcaptained by Altman himself, The most daring perhaps have already solved the enigma of what it was going to be about when they saw the laptop. that was on the table, which had a sticker of a strawberry.
The o1 model was launched in ‘preview’ mode last September as a limited preview and now reaching maturity: the full version of the model is releasedwhich is now available for ChatGPT Plus and Team users starting this Thursday. Enterprise and Edu customers will have access to it starting next week.
What news has come to ChatGPT?
What has changed since the o1 preview? “A faster reasoning model and powerful that is better for coding, mathematics and writing,” they say from OpenAI.
“o1 now also supports image uploadsallowing you to apply reasoning to visual elements to get more detailed and useful answers,” they add.
Additionally, according to OpenAI, o1 is “more concise in its thinking,” resulting in faster response times than o1 in mode preview: “Our tests show that o1 outperforms o1-preview, reducing major errors on difficult real-world questions by 34%.”
o1 will still have loose fringes
Although this is supposedly the full version of the model, OpenAI claims that They are still working “to add support for tools like web browsing and uploading files to OpenAI o1 in ChatGPT.” “We are also working on making ‘o1’ available in the API with support for function calls, developer messaging, structured outputs, and vision. Stay tuned,” they reported.
Will this improved AI be free?
As you can imagine, if you want use the latest OpenAI model to power ChatGPT you will have to pay it. And it’s not cheap.
The company has announced that ChatGPT Pro is now availablea new $200 monthly subscription which includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o and a advanced voice mode. It also includes an exclusive version of o1 for Pro users, which uses more computing to provide the best possible answer to the most difficult problems.
The company has assured that will continue to offer its Plus plan for $20 per month, which includes early access to new features and access to all the company’s models – except the most powerful o1 version – among other things.