2-3 min read  •  The power of AI in our society continues to grow by the day. Yet, we never would have even thought that something as simple as Chat GPT (which was once a technological marvel) would reach the point of being able to properly think, reason, and provide insight to the level of a PhD student. This is the power of OpenAI o1, the newest and seemingly most powerful AI that has been released to this date. What is OpenAI o1? OpenAI o1 is a new series of models, that, unlike prior models, spend more time thinking of a response than actually outputting one. If you go ahead and ask ChatGPT or GPT-4 any questions, within seconds or even milliseconds, you'll get a continuously generating response. The new o1 series, on the other hand, will process and analyze the complexities of your problem before it returns a fully thought out response. In this series are o1-preview, and o1-mini. The preview version is the powerful, deep-reasoning mastermind, and the mini model is a smaller, f