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o1

Released Dec 5, 2024 · knowledge cutoff 2023-10

Status
Superseded
Location
United States
Modality
Multimodal
Context window
200K
Max output
100K
Speed
Price ($/MTok in / out)
$15 / $60
Cost per task
Open weights
No
Benchmarks5 of 8 reported

GPQA Diamond

78%

SWE-bench Verified

48.9%

AIME (latest)

79.2%

Humanity's Last Exam

9.1%

LMArena Elo

1352

MMLU-Pro

Terminal-Bench 2.1

ARC-AGI-2

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • First model that would genuinely stop and work a problem through before answering
  • Catches and reverses its own wrong turns mid-reasoning instead of committing to the first path
  • Best on problems with a checkable answer — proofs, puzzles, tight logic

Weaknesses

  • Long, unpredictable wait before the first token; unusable anywhere interactive
  • Overthinks trivial questions, spending minutes on what a small model answers instantly
  • Reasoning is hidden, so you cannot see where it went wrong or steer it

Full release of the o1 series (previewed September 2024).

For developers

API model strings

Not researched

Licence

Proprietary — weights not released

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

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