On the first day of “shipmas,” Sam Altman gave to me...
Yesterday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that to wrap up the year, the company would celebrate “shipmas” and launch and demo a new product or feature each day for the next 12 days, or as he put it, “The 12 Days of OpenAI.”
For the first release, OpenAI announced the “full” version of its latest OpenAI o1 model and a new $200 per month ChatGPT Pro tier that offers unlimited access to the company’s latest models. OpenAI o1’s biggest feature is its ability to use multistep “reasoning” to solve complex problems.
For that extra fee, you can ask ChatGPT to solve the “most challenging” math, science, and programming problems, which it can answer in one to three minutes.
OpenAI seems to be taking cues from its business partner Microsoft by embracing some confusing branding for its growing portfolio of services.
Now, when you pay for ChatGPT Pro (not to be confused with the $20 per month ChatGPT Plus), power users can choose to use “o1 Pro Mode,” which can be used to “ask the model to use even more compute to think even harder on some of the most difficult problems,” one engineer said.
In the livestream of the announcement, Sam Altman sat with three male OpenAI developers who worked on the products and walked through some pretty wonky and boring demos.
In one example, which lives up to a viral TikTok moment, one of the developers asked ChatGPT to “list the Roman emperors of the second century, including their dates and accomplishments.” It took the o1 model 14 seconds to answer.
Another demo involved uploading a hand-drawn sketch of a theoretical space-based, solar-powered AI data center to ChatGPT and asking it to estimate the surface area for a part of the contraption. After 10 seconds, ChatGPT returned an estimate along with a step-by-step solution including formulas and explaining its assumptions.
The demo for “Pro Mode” involved identifying a protein based on six criteria, which it completed in 53 seconds.
For the first release, OpenAI announced the “full” version of its latest OpenAI o1 model and a new $200 per month ChatGPT Pro tier that offers unlimited access to the company’s latest models. OpenAI o1’s biggest feature is its ability to use multistep “reasoning” to solve complex problems.
For that extra fee, you can ask ChatGPT to solve the “most challenging” math, science, and programming problems, which it can answer in one to three minutes.
OpenAI seems to be taking cues from its business partner Microsoft by embracing some confusing branding for its growing portfolio of services.
Now, when you pay for ChatGPT Pro (not to be confused with the $20 per month ChatGPT Plus), power users can choose to use “o1 Pro Mode,” which can be used to “ask the model to use even more compute to think even harder on some of the most difficult problems,” one engineer said.
In the livestream of the announcement, Sam Altman sat with three male OpenAI developers who worked on the products and walked through some pretty wonky and boring demos.
In one example, which lives up to a viral TikTok moment, one of the developers asked ChatGPT to “list the Roman emperors of the second century, including their dates and accomplishments.” It took the o1 model 14 seconds to answer.
Another demo involved uploading a hand-drawn sketch of a theoretical space-based, solar-powered AI data center to ChatGPT and asking it to estimate the surface area for a part of the contraption. After 10 seconds, ChatGPT returned an estimate along with a step-by-step solution including formulas and explaining its assumptions.
The demo for “Pro Mode” involved identifying a protein based on six criteria, which it completed in 53 seconds.
