OpenAI Enhances Canvas Feature with o1 Model Support and Expanded Rendering Capabilities

You Can Now Use the o1 AI Model While Using OpenAI's Canvas Feature

The ChatGPT feature will be available on all tiers of the macOS app OpenAI announced several upgrades for its Canvas feature on Saturday. The sandbox-styled pop-up window that allows users to work alongside the chatbot to make inline edits, formatting, and coding was first released in October 2024 in early beta. It was then rolled out to all users in December 2024. Now, the AI firm has added support for the o1 artificial intelligence (AI) model to the feature. Additionally, it is now being added to the ChatGPT app for macOS across all the user tiers. The AI firm announced the new updates to Canvas in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter). Until now, paid subscribers could use the o1 AI model for general output generation, however, the reasoning-focused model was unavailable in Canvas. Now, users subscribed to the ChatGPT Plus, Teams, and Pro plans will get to use Canvas with the o1 model. To use the o1 model with Canvas, users will first have to select the AI model from the model picker. After that, accessing Canvas via either the "/canvas" command or the toolbox icon will open the sandbox interface with o1 capabilities. Additionally, Canvas is now also available on the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. Canvas is available to the free users alongside all the paid tiers. However, free users will not get to access the o1 model. Notably, earlier the feature was only available in the web version of the platform. OpenAI has not shared any plans to roll it to the mobile apps or the Windows app. Further, Canvas' functionality is also being expanded to support HTML and React code. The tool will be able to render these coding languages alongside the existing support for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, or PHP. The support for HTML and React is also limited to the paid subscribers at present. OpenAI also revealed that the Enterprise and Edu subscribers will get both o1 model support as well as access to HTML and React rendering in the next couple of weeks. Notably, Canvas is a collaborative sandbox interface where both human users and the AI can work together on projects. After ChatGPT generates an output based on a prompt, the user can take over and make inline edits to the response to fine-tune it. OpenAI highlighted that the feature is suitable for creative writing tasks and coding-related work.

This New Update Makes ChatGPT Essential for Coding

9 Ways I Ensure That My Phone Always Has Battery on Long Trips (Without a Portable Charger) ChatGPT's co-editor interface, Canvas, is already a valuable tool for generating and editing code. Now, OpenAI is elevating the feature with the integration of o1, its powerful reasoning model. ChatGPT's Advanced Reasoning Model Is Coming to Canvas OpenAI just rolled out an exciting update for ChatGPT's Canvas mode, which will now be able to leverage o1, the company's most advanced reasoning LLM. According to OpenAI's X post, you can now choose "o1 from the model picker and use the toolbox icon or the '/canvas' command" to take advance of the integration. At the time of writing, Canvas with o1 is only available to Pro, Plus, and Team users, but will roll out to Enterprise and Edu plans in a "couple weeks," per OpenAI. The update is undeniably great news for coders. Generating code was already one of the top uses for ChatGPT's Canvas mode. The interface was built to support "projects that require editing and revisions," as described in OpenAI's announcement of Canvas in October 2024. Compared to the classic ChatGPT window, Canvas mode lets you easily produce, review, debug, directly adjust and make comments on your code. Matching that with an advanced reasoning model like o1 amplifies the possibilities of the tool. Seeing Is Believing In addition to the o1 integration, OpenAI is also bringing rendering power to Canvas. Now, you'll be able to preview your code as you work in the generative interface -- as long as its HTML and React code. This ability to write and render code in Canvas at the same time will undoubtedly be a huge time-saver and a big pull for the platform. The lack of rendering ability was one of the reasons that some have preferred using Claude compared to ChatGPT Canvas for code support. Unlike the o1 integration, the new React and HTML rendering functionality is available to Free users -- not just Pro, Plus, and Team accounts. While some are still waiting for Canvas updates like additional programming languages, the latest advancement is a huge leap forward for ChatGPT's co-editing tool. Plus, it's decent timing for OpenAI to introduce such compelling new features, as Chinese-developed AI model DeepSeek soars to the top of the free app chart. That said, OpenAI's announcement is far from a desperate press stunt; these improvements will actually save you quite a few headaches when writing and debugging code.