We asked OpenAI's new o1 model what it thought about its own name. It didn't hold back.
Briefly

As a marketing and branding expert, my honest reaction to naming an AI language model 'o1' is that it poses several significant challenges. I would rate this name a 4 out of 10.
OpenAI has introduced its latest model on Thursday, which it calls OpenAI o1. It has 'enhanced reasoning capabilities' and was trained to spend more time thinking before responding, much like humans.
CEO Sam Altman called ChatGPT 'a horrible name' during Trevor Noah's podcast in 2023 and acknowledged as recently as July that the company needed to 'revamp' its approach.
For complex reasoning tasks this is a significant advancement and represents a new level of AI capability. Given this, we are resetting the counter back to 1 and naming this series OpenAI o1.
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