The New o1 Pro for $200 a month
The Atlantic, about the new reasoning OpenAI Pro o1
Even if you accept the claim that o1 understands, instead of mimicking, the logic that underlies its responses, the program might actually be further from general intelligence than ChatGPT. o1’s improvements are constrained to specific subjects where you can confirm whether a solution is true—like checking a proof against mathematical laws or testing computer code for bugs. There’s no objective rubric for beautiful poetry, persuasive rhetoric, or emotional empathy with which to train the model. That likely makes o1 more narrowly applicable than GPT-4o, the University of Pennsylvania’s Rao said, which even OpenAI’s blog post announcing the model hinted at, stating: “For many common cases GPT-4o will be more capable in the near term.”
OpenAI say they will have two plans for their AIs, one called Plus, currently at $20 / month, the other called Pro, at $200 / month, that will include unlimited access to the reasoning model, o1.
I am not convinced this is what we should understand by reason, I am not convinced o1 is closer to AGI, hell, we don't even know how o1 benchmarks against the Chinese reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1.
One thing I know: OpenAI plan to raise the Plus price to about $50 / month, while they start the Pro at $200 / month - read as "They do not make enough money, so they oversell". This is not an upsell, this is desperation. No good things came out of desperation in product management.
