OpenAI's Upcoming o1 Model Accidentally Leaked, Showcasing Impressive Capabilities

OpenAI Appears to Have Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address

The full version of OpenAI's latest AI model called 01 appears to have leaked on Friday -- only for the company to shut it down a mere two hours later. As Tom's Guide reports, a number of users on X-formerly-Twitter discovered that a simple tweak to the URL allowed them to access the AI model. The model was first announced in September and has only been available in "preview" form to paying users since then. But by changing the URL, users claimed to have found a workaround to get access to the full thing. OpenAI, however, has yet to comment on the matter, and it's still unclear if they were indeed chatting with the company's long-awaited AI model (Futurism has reached out to OpenAI for clarification.) Glimpses users claim to have gotten, though suggest that the full release could mark a serious improvement over anything we've seen from the company previously. Users initially impressed by the purported model's capabilities, from solving a complex math problem to an image puzzle. One user found that the AI model could spit out a "full 01 Chain of Thought" after being asked to analyze a picture of a recent SpaceX launch. Another Reddit user found that it "managed to process a massive JSON dump that wasn't feasible with o1-preview due to its token limitations," referring to a common file format that coders used to store human-readable text. We still don't know when OpenAI will make the full version of its o1 model available to users. As Tom's Guide points out, the Sam Altman-led firm may be waiting out the current US presidential election this week. But even in its "preview form," the o1 model has already impressed experts with its improved ability to solve standardized tests and new chain-of-thought reasoning. Despite some impressive benchmarks, though, OpenAI recently found that its ability to provide correct -- and not "hallucinated" -- answers still leaves plenty to be desired. Whether that will change at all with the release of the full version of the o1 model remains to be seen.

OpenAI's o1 model leaked on Friday and it is wild -- here's what happened

OpenAI is set to release the full version of its powerful o1 reasoning model sometime this year, but an unexpected leak last week means we may have already seen it in action -- and it is even better than we expected. In September OpenAI unveiled a new type of AI model that takes time to reason through a problem before responding. This was added to ChatGPT in the form of o1-preview and o1-mini, neither of which demonstrated the full capabilities of the final o1 model, but did show a major improvement in terms of accuracy over GPT-4. CEO Sam Altman says o1 is a divergence from the GPT-style models normally released, including GPT-4o, which powers Advanced Voice. During a briefing with OpenAI, I've been told o1 full is a significant improvement over the preview, and the leak seems to confirm that is the case. Over about two hours on Friday users could access what is thought to be the full version of o1 (OpenAI has not confirmed) by changing a parameter in the URL. The new model will also be able to analyze images and access tools like web search and data analysis. Ever since the release of the original o1-preview model OpenAI insiders have been boasting about the full capabilities of the model once the preview tag is removed. Theories suggest that the preview was trained on an earlier version of the GPT models whereas the full model was trained from scratch. Either way, the leak seemed to prove that they were right. In one example a user was able to get it to solve an image puzzle. The AI spent nearly two minutes thinking through the problem but it demonstrated the huge potential once it is able to review images, documents and other multimedia inputs. In another example, a user was able to have it walk through every single element of an image showing a recent SpaceX rocket launch. It went into considerable detail about color and motion. This could be huge for AI image generation. It isn't clear when OpenAI will unveil the full version of o1 properly but what we do know is that it will be a significant advancement in AI. It is likely to be sometime in the next few weeks as most AI companies seem to be holding back until after the U.S. Presidential election.