This Week Sees the Release of OpenAI‘s “Strawberry”

Model with “Human-Like Reasoning“

 

 

The excitement is too much.

The company that created ChatGPT, OpenAI, is believed to be releasing a brand-new AI model soon called “Strawberry” that is “human-like” in its capacity for reasoning.

As Bloomberg reported, a person with knowledge of the project claims that it might be made public as soon as this week.
There have been rumors going around for a few months now regarding an OpenAI model with reasoning capabilities. In November, The Information and Reuters disclosed that the company was working on a secret project called Q*, or Q-Star. This project was supposed to be a significant step forward in OpenAI‘s pursuit of artificial general intelligence, or the point at which an AI could theoretically surpass a human.

Sources close to Reuters disclosed in July that the most recent model, known as Strawberry, is actually Q*.
It’s unclear, though, exactly when the corporation will make the system available to the public, let alone if it will live up to the extreme hype. With OpenAI seeking to raise an incredible $6.5 billion from investors to increase its already extraordinarily high valuation to $150 billion, the pressure is on.
A next-generation AI model could help assuage mounting concerns that the “AI bubble” is beginning to burst and that the technology revolution promised by its releases thus far has not materialized.

There are rumors that other AI companies are working on “reasoning” AI models. Earlier this year, two products from Google’s artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry2 claimed to be able to answer math problems up to the high school level.

Anthropic, a competitor AI company, also aims to enhance the cognitive capabilities of Claude, their AI.

OpenAI still has a lot to prove. Could Strawberry really represent a major breakthrough in AI tech? Will it power the next generation of chatbots? What will the experience of using it look like, and how much slower will it be than ChatGPT?

Even more importantly, will it still be as error-prone as its predecessors, which still have the tendency to “hallucinate”?
It’s likely that the Sam Altman-led company will play it safe and slowly roll out its new AI model, so these answers will probably come gradually.