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Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time often increases performance on tasks involving math, physics, and science. And this latest open model is turning heads for apparently quickly catching up to OpenAI. For example, DeepSeek reports that R1 outperformed OpenAI’s o1 on several benchmarks and tests,… Read More »

2024: The year AI drove everyone crazy

Microsoft Windows AI is watching A screenshot of Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature in action. Credit: Microsoft In an era where many people already feel like they have no privacy due to tech encroachments, Microsoft dialed it up to an extreme degree in May. That’s when Microsoft unveiled a controversial Windows 11 feature called “Recall” that… Read More »

OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models

On Friday, during Day 12 of its “12 days of OpenAI,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced its latest AI “reasoning” models, o3 and o3-mini, which build upon the o1 models launched earlier this year. The company is not releasing them yet but will make these models available for public safety testing and research access today.… Read More »

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model

Google DeepMind’s chief scientist, Jeff Dean, says that the model receives extra computing power, writing on X, “we see promising results when we increase inference time computation!” The model works by pausing to consider multiple related prompts before providing what it determines to be the most accurate answer. Since OpenAI’s jump into the “reasoning” field… Read More »

Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse

Microsoft says Copilot Labs will serve as a testing ground for Microsoft’s latest AI tools before they see wider release. The company describes it as offering “a glimpse into ‘work-in-progress’ projects.” The first feature available in Labs is called “Think Deeper,” and it uses step-by-step processing to solve more complex problems than the regular Copilot.… Read More »

Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model

reader comments 56 OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending out warning emails and threats of bans to any user who tries to probe… Read More »

OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini

reader comments 40 OpenAI finally unveiled its rumored “Strawberry” AI language model on Thursday, claiming significant improvements in what it calls “reasoning” and problem-solving capabilities over previous large language models (LLMs). Formally named “OpenAI o1,” the model family will initially launch in two forms, o1-preview and o1-mini, available today for ChatGPT Plus and certain API… Read More »