Implications of new Reasoning Capabilities for Science and Security: Results from a Quick Initial Study
J Pruet, USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Karthik Duraisamy, Vinamra Agrawal, Ayan Biswas, Roxana Bujack, Michael J. Grosskopf, Aric A. Hagberg, Bin Hu, Earl Lawrence, Wenting Li, Eric Michalak, Isaac J. Michaud, Daniel O’Malley, Javier E. Santos, Venkat Raman, Alexander Scheinker · 2024
On Thursday, September 12 OpenAI released “a new series of models designed to spend more time thinking… they can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math.” These models are referred to as o1-preview and o1-mini and appear to be first results of what had been a closely held project called Strawberry within OpenAI. The models are not described as successors in the earlier GPT series because they provide a qualitatively different type of capability, especially step-by-step reasoning.