On Thursday, OpenAI released what’s effectively a $200-a-month chatbot — and the AI community didn’t know quite what to make of it.
The company’s new ChatGPT Pro plan grants access to “o1 pro mode,” which OpenAI says “uses more compute for the best answers to the hardest questions.” A souped-up version of OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model, o1 pro mode should answer questions relating to science, math, and coding more “reliably” and “comprehensively,” OpenAI says.
Almost immediately, people started asking it to draw unicorns:
And design a “crab-based” computer:
And wax poetic on the meaning of life:
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