Mint Explainer: What OpenAI o1 ‘reasoning’ model means for the future of GenAI

In the early hours of Friday, Sam Altman’s OpenAI unveiled a new foundational artificial intelligence model called OpenAI o1. Elucidating upon this further, OpenAI said, “These enhanced reasoning capabilities may be particularly useful if you’re tackling complex problems in science, coding, math, and similar fields. “We’ve so far seen scaling of generative AI in terms of model size, but now we’ll see from the inference size," said Kashyap Kompella, AI analyst and founder of tech consultancy RPA2AI Research. “It isn’t always that we need an instant, one-shot response to a search query, which is why this OpenAI o1 model can prove to be important for domain-specific applications.