OpenAI’s Project Strawberry has been revealed to be a new series of AI models. Here’s what they can do for you.
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.
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.
What exactly is Project Strawberry?
In May, Reuters obtained an internal OpenAI document that showed that OpenAI is working on a project codenamed Strawberry. In that internal document, Strawberry was said to be a model with advanced reasoning capabilities that could be used for deep research by navigating the internet autonomously and reliably.
This project is the same as Q*, a model whose rumors began circulating in November 2023. At that time, Reuters reported that some OpenAI employees regarded Q* as a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The official answer to these rumors is the o1-preview and o1-mini models, which OpenAI released on September 12.
