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MAD Disclosure
OpenAI studied reinforcement learning reasoning models internally long before releasing o1
“So before we released a one and thinking reasoning models, we were studying this internally”
Dan Roberts Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 1:54 OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
MAD Opinion
Tworek: OpenAI's o1 was mostly a tech demo for solving puzzles
“O-one like, to be perfectly honest, it was really mostly good at solving puzzles and like maybe a few kind of thinking problems here and there, but it wasn't like, it wasn't a very useful model. It was almost more like a technology demonstration.”
Jerry Tworek Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 8:33 How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tworek: OpenAI's o1 release caught US AI labs unprepared for RL
“As far as I know, like our O-one release mostly caught a lot of us labs by surprise. They didn't have like similarly advanced RL research program to my knowledge, basically no one.”
Jerry Tworek Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 51:16 How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: An o3-level reasoning model was open-sourced within a year of o1
“So less than one year between O one announced, which was September of 20, 24. And we have an O three level model open sourced that's runnable on consumer hardware, wild progress.”
Jordi Hays Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 57:01 Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Marcus: Models like o1 are not systematically better than GPT-4
“Models like O-I are not systematically better than GPT-IV. There's, they're better in certain use cases. Especially ones where you can create data in advance.”
Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 ▶ 11:46 Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
TBPN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Most ChatGPT users do not know o1 or GPT-4 differences
“In fact, most people using tracks between the world don't even know there's a model called O one or O three and don't even know what the difference is for GPT four.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 7:35 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Partly held up
Patel: GPT-5 will simultaneously scale pre-training and post-training reasoning
“And so now GPT-Five, as Sam calls it, is, is gonna be a model that has huge pre-training scale, right? Like GPT-Five, but also huge post-training scale, Like O-one and O-three and continuing to scale that up, right? This would be the first time we see a model …”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 36:50 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
Taylor: OpenAI o1 used reinforcement learning on chains of thought
“What at OpenAI, what we did with the O-one model, which is to do some reinforcement learning those chains of thought to really reach new levels of intelligence.”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 46:44 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hu: OpenAI reasoning models are catching up to Claude 3.5 Sonnet
“The thing about CodeGen, the big game in town that we saw, ah, six months ago was Clawed Sonnet. It's still actually a big contender. Most are still using it. But O-one, O-one Pro, and O-three meaning all these resilient models are starting to see it's almost …”
Diana Hu Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 8:50 Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
OpenAI used o1 synthetic data to train Canvas commenting behaviors
“The way we used it is, like, we would use a one model to produce, to, like, simulate, like, use a conversation. Let's say, like, write me a document about XYZ, but then we used a one to, like, produce the document, and then we kind of injected, like, user prom…”
Karina Nguyen Feb 9, 2025 ▶ 17:11 OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen
BG2 Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: DeepSeek's training run was up to 50% more efficient than o1
“Now, of course, they talked about the six million dollar final training run, and this, it's important to understand, this is also correct. Right? And as I said on CNBC, this compares to about 10 or fifteen million for O-one out of OpenAI. So apples to apples, …”
Brad Gerstner Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 9:26 DeepSeek, Open Source, Tariffs, DOGE, Market Impact | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Karina Nguyen: OpenAI o1 excels when given explicit hard constraints
“If you give a one like hard, like constraints of like what you're looking for, basically the model would be, we'll have a much easier time to like, kind of like select the candidates and match like the candidate that is most like, fulfill the criteria that you…”
Karina Nguyen Feb 1, 2025 ▶ 18:13 The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: OpenAI's $200 o1 Pro uses the same model as $20 o1
“In fact, the O-one model is 20 dollars a month, is basically the same model used in the O-one Pro model for 10 X the price at 200 dollars a month, which raised plenty of eyebrows. The main difference is that O-one Pro thinks for a lot longer before responding”
John Coogan Jan 28, 2025 ▶ 16:29 DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: DeepSeek-R1 API is 27 times cheaper than OpenAI's o1
“The deep seek R one API is currently 27%, 27 times cheaper than open AI's O one for a similar level of quality.”
John Coogan Jan 28, 2025 ▶ 37:04 DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
DeepSeek used model distillation to match OpenAI's o1 at lower cost
“And, you know, they've just used the process of distillation to, you know, effectively bring those bigger versions of the sort of state-of-the-art models and distill them down into you know, smaller models, which eventually led to this R-one, you know, the equ…”
M.G. Siegler Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 12:00 How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
Beauchamp: AI intelligence is generative LLMs combined with tree search
“I think if you want to talk about what would intelligence look like, it looks much more like tree search. Combining the generative nature of these LLMs with a really good tree search. And that's what opening I've done with O-one and O-three.”
William Beauchamp Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 1:10:38 Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
OpenAI likely reaches frontier capabilities via search, then distills into mini models
“The only way you reach the frontier with the full size models of O-one and O-three is with that stuff. And then you can distill to the minis, the O-one mini, O-three mini. So in my writeup, I said like, maybe this is the formula for O-one mini, O-three mini. T…”
Shawn Wang Jan 24, 2025 ▶ 11:05 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasoning Distillation: using DeepSeek R1 to beat OpenAI o1
McAteer: OpenAI o1 is the first model that grows more impressive over time
“O-one is actually the first model where I'm getting more impressed by it the more I use it. So, like, when ChatGPT first came out, right, I think it was GPT-III. And at first it seemed like, oh wow, this is amazing, it can actually create text that sounds like…”
Dan McAteer Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 2:10 OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
McAteer: o1 is the first model to achieve one-shot codebase implementation
“Using O-one was, it was the first time where I would connect it to my IDE. I would provide the full context of my code base. I'll just create a file that concatenates all my files into one just simple text file, give it to O-one, and then say, hey, based on th…”
Dan McAteer Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 6:58 OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
Hylak: OpenAI o1 struggles to match personal tone and writing styles
“I think that I've had a very hard time getting it to actually write stuff. I know that I've heard of people using it for writing where it's like processing diffs, more like providing critiques or feedback, but at least for myself, I haven't found a good way to…”
Ben Hillock Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 10:24 OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
McAteer: Asking o1 for full code files instead of diffs is ineffective
“At first I was asking it to generate full files of code, like as I'm making changes. That can get a little bit confusing, and then if you're trying to use like a coding agent to bring it over into your projects. So I feel like that's not the best format for co…”
Dan McAteer Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 10:47 OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
Hylak: Hidden reasoning tokens create an information asymmetry between OpenAI and developers
“I think that what makes a one even trickier than other models is that there is actually an asymmetric miss to how well open AI understands the model and how well we, for example, the fact that like reasoning tokens are hidden, right? So there's all this stuff …”
Ben Hillock Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 12:27 OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
Hylak: OpenAI o1 is OpenAI's most capable yet hardest model to use
“We're finding that like, oh, one is the most capable model. I think that opening eye has made. And it's also, I think the hardest to use.”
Ben Hillock Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 15:00 OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
Hylak: Users willing to wait five minutes for AI will wait an hour
“I think that it's like the number of tasks that you're willing to wait, you know, like 3:05 minutes for it. It's like probably pretty similar to the number of tasks you're willing to wait like an hour for, which is interesting.”
Ben Hillock Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 16:40 OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
Lambert: OpenAI o1 uses large-scale RL on verifiable outcomes, not MCTS
“You should take open AI at their face value, which they are doing very large scale RL on the verifiable outcomes is what I've added, especially in context of the RL API that they've released, which I'll talk about more, but most of the reasons to believe in mo…”
Nathan Lambert Jan 2, 2025 ▶ 5:23 The State of Reasoning — from Nathan Lambert, Interconnects/AI2 [LS Live @ NeurIPS 2024]
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lambert: Early DeepSeek and Qwen reasoning models are substantially narrower than o1
“And I think that these models are really substantially narrower than these full O-one models from OpenAI. So OpenAI is, if you use O-one, you can do it for a lot more tasks. If you use, like I was using the DeepSeq model, and it's supposed to be for math or co…”
Nathan Lambert Jan 2, 2025 ▶ 6:26 The State of Reasoning — from Nathan Lambert, Interconnects/AI2 [LS Live @ NeurIPS 2024]
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Wang: China's DeepSeek produced the first replication of OpenAI's o1 model
“OpenAI released O-one and released the O-one preview a number of months ago... Yeah, this is OpenAI's advanced reasoning model, which is great at sort of scientific reasoning and mathematical reasoning and reasoning and code, et cetera. And the very first repl…”
Alexandr Wang Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 13:21 AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Coogan: OpenAI o1 is built on the GPT-4 foundation model
“The foundation model, yeah, it's still running GPT-IV, but obviously there's a lot of there's a lot of training to have that happens on top and a lot of UI stuff.”
John Coogan Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 2:36:12 How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Fireworks AI will release a reasoning model inspired by OpenAI's o1
“So another announcement is we will also announce a, our next Declarative system is going to be appear as a model that has extremely high quality, and this model is inspired by O-one announcement from OpenAI. You should see that by the time we announce this o…”
Lin Qiao Nov 25, 2024 ▶ 29:26 Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
Hu: OpenAI o1 Combines Next-Token LLMs with RL Reward Functions
“GPT is all generative based on predicting the next token and patterns and then getting those results to check that they're correct. So I think a lot of it is you had to have a lot of data that was factually correct and Fed into probably the model and the train…”
Diana Hu Nov 14, 2024 ▶ 16:09 Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling · Y Combinator
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Friedman: Full OpenAI o1 Model Is a Huge Step Function Above o1-Preview
“Like the full O-one model, which is coming out any day now is a huge step function above even O-one preview, which is what enabled all these incredible results at the hackathon.”
Jared Friedman Nov 14, 2024 ▶ 17:43 Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling · Y Combinator
Weil: AI reasoning models are currently only in their GPT-1 phase
“So, it's basically a new way to scale intelligence, and we feel like we're just at the very beginning, you know, we're at the, like, GPT-I phase of this new form of reasoning.”
Kevin Weil Nov 6, 2024 ▶ 31:49 A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo
20VC Prediction Held up
Altman: Competing AI labs will successfully replicate OpenAI's o1 model
“After, after a research lab does something, even if you don't know exactly how they did it, it's, I won't say easy, but it's doable to go off and copy it, and you can see this in the replications of GPT-IV, and I'm sure you'll see this in replications of O-one…”
Sam Altman Nov 4, 2024 ▶ 15:48 Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Tan: OpenAI enabled internal model distillation as a developer lock-in strategy
“OpenAI itself has now enabled distillation internal to its own API. So you can use O-one, you can use even GPT-IV or IV-O to distill it down into a much cheaper model that's internal to them, like GPT-IV, IV-O-Mini. And that's sort of their, you know, lock-in …”
Garry Tan Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 10:49 The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
Hu: OpenAI's o1 massively increases GPU compute requirements for inference
“I think the other thing that's interesting about one is that it makes a lot of the GPU needs even bigger because it's moving a lot of the computation needs a lot higher for inference because it's taking a lot more time to do a lot of the inference. So I think …”
Diana Hu Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 23:47 The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sarah Guo says test-time compute scaling unlocks new AI competition
“Another school of thought is which I do subscribe to, by the way, is you know, new scaling law, right? So will allow us to do an important range of new tasks, and how good it is exactly at this moment is not the important thing. It's a new dimension of competi…”
Sarah Guo Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 16:02 No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
SOURCERY Prediction Held up
Competitors will catch up to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model within six months
“O1 just came out. We haven't fully benchmarked on our side yet. It's definitely an improvement. And so open AI is ahead of everybody else. It's an improvement in reasoning which is good. We can talk about that later on, but I expect people will catch up within…”
Alex Kolicich Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 8:47 Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
ALL-IN Opinion
Calacanis: OpenAI's o1 model is a year ahead of competitors
“And the previous version I felt was three to six months ahead of competitors. This is a year ahead of competitors.”
Jason Calacanis Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 17:53 OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
OpenAI o1 Benchmarks Show Major Gains Across Math, Coding, and Science
“So if you think about, ah, competition math, ah, GPT-IV-O was getting a 13.4 accuracy score on competition math. But this thing and the way that it can think through the different problems is getting 83.3, ah, score on accuracy. Ah, with competition math. So i…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 1:41 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
OpenAI Notably Avoided Using the Word 'Agent' in o1 Announcement
“Open AI hasn't actually used the word agent once in its announcement, and it doesn't sound like any of its scientists have talked about that either.”
Parmy Olson Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 21:49 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's Blog Post States o1 Does Not Solve Hallucinations
“Yeah, and OpenAI even in its blog post says that it does not solve, this does not solve hallucinations, and then you can”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 24:49 Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?

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