OpenAI announced the release of its new series of AI models—OpenAI o1, with significantly advanced reasoning capabilities. According to OpenAI, what sets the o1 apart from the GPT-4o family is that they’re designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. One of the caveats with older and current OpenAI models (eg GPT-4o and 4o-mini) is their limited reasoning and contextual awareness capabilities—which lag behind advanced models like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet. OpenAI o1 is designed to help users complete complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math.