GPT is Dead — Long Live OpenAI o1
The beginning of a new paradigm for AI
26 min readOct 17, 2024
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No, GPT isn’t dead. But if there’s one big takeaway from the new OpenAI o1 model series — allow me the enthusiasm here — is that a new paradigm is being born. A new paradigm of reason. A new paradigm of scaling. A new paradigm of AI.
ChatGPT and GPT-4 will live among us but neither will be OpenAI’s preferred child anymore. We’re entering a new phase, a new era. The company’s resources and efforts will mostly be devoted to exploring, scaling, and maturing the new paradigm, which is more akin to a GPT-3 moment (“Wait, how can AI do that?”) than a ChatGPT moment (“Everyone’s invited to the party!”).
We need a lot of answers to interpret the shift in its entirety:
- What does a reasoning AI mean for generative AI (is it generative at all)?
- How will users relate to and interact with AI models that can think?
- What can reasoning models do when you allow them to think for hours, days, or even weeks?
- How will reasoning models scale performance now as a function of compute?
- How will companies allocate compute across the training-inference pipeline?
