OpenAI o1 AI models reportedly expanding to enterprise and education users

OpenAI last week released its o1-series artificial intelligence (AI) models with advanced reasoning capabilities. These AI models are said to be the rumored “Strawberry” model that the company has allegedly been developing for the past few months. The company claimed that these large language models (LLMs), consisting of the o1 and o1-mini, were capable of multi-step reasoning and “thinking like a human.” Now, according to the report, these models are being expanded to the AI ​​company’s enterprise and education customers.

OpenAI o1 AI models reach enterprise and education users

According to a report by VentureBeat, the AI ​​company is now expanding its latest AI models to ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu subscribers. This means that users will soon see the option to switch to o1 models when prompted. Interestingly, the AI ​​models were rolled out to Plus and Teams users on the same day as LLM’s release.

Even though paid ChatGPT subscribers get access to the latest AI model, OpenAI has stated that it is still a “preview” version and therefore will have rate limits. The larger o1 model has a rate limit of 50 queries per week. At launch, the rate limit for o1-mini was also set to the same value, but the company later increased it to 50 queries per day.

The new o1 series models are designed to solve and run complex reasoning-based tasks, multi-step math problems, and areas that require deeper subject knowledge. The AI ​​company says the AI ​​models will take several minutes to think about a prompt before generating an answer. This mimics a human-like thinking process and allows the AI ​​to think of different possibilities and eliminate any errors, OpenAI emphasized.

Derya Unutmaz, a professor at the nonprofit research institution The Jackson Laboratory, said in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the o1 AI model was able to “write a large cancer treatment project based on a very specific immunological approach” that would take him “days, if not longer” to prepare.

Interestingly, OpenAI has stated that those on the free tier of ChatGPT will also get access to the o1-mini AI model in the coming weeks. The speed limit is expected to be lower than what paid subscribers receive.