After months of speculation and anticipation, OpenAI has released the production version of its advanced reasoning model, Project Strawberry, which has been renamed “o1.” It is joined by a “mini” version (just as GPT-4o was) that will offer faster and more responsive interactions at the expense of leveraging a larger knowledge base.
It appears that o1 offers a mixed bag of technical advancements. It’s the first in OpenAI’s line of reasoning models designed to use humanlike deduction to answer complex questions on subjects — including science, coding, and math — faster than humans can.
For example, during testing, o1 was fed a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad. While its predecessor, GPT-4o, only managed to correctly solve 13% of the problems presented, o1 got 83% of them right. In an online Codeforces competition, o1 scored in the 89th percentile. What’s more, o1 can respond to queries that stumped previous models (like, “which is bigger, 9.11 or 9.9?”). However, the company makes clear that this release is only a preview of the neophyte model’s full capabilities.
The new o1 “has been trained using a completely new optimization algorithm and a new training dataset specifically tailored for it,” OpenAI’s research lead, Jerry Tworek, told The Verge. Using a combination of reinforcement learning and “chain of thought” reasoning, o1 reportedly returns more accurate inferences than its predecessor. “We have noticed that this model hallucinates less,” Tworek said, however, “we can’t say we solved hallucinations.”
Both ChatGPT-Plus and Teams subscribers will be able to test out o1 and o1-mini beginning today. Enterprise and Edu subscribers should have access by next week.
The company says that o1-mini will eventually become available to free-tier users, though it did not specify a timeline. Developers will notice a steep increase in the API pricing for o1, compared to GPT-4o. Access to o1 will cost $15 per million input tokens (compared to $5 per million for GPT-4o) and $60 per million output tokens, four times more than 4o’s $5 per million fee. The real question is whether the new model thinks the word “strawberry” contains two R’s or three.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.
Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra.
OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.