In September, OpenAI unveiled a radically new type of AI model called o1. "It's amazing how quickly AI model improvements get commoditized," Rahul Sonwalkar, CEO of the startup Julius AI, said. September is a lifetime ago in the AI industryWhen OpenAI previewed its o1 model in September, the product was hailed as a breakthrough. Maybe I need to consider a different strategy," the AI model wrote. Then Google appearsSnell said other companies are likely working on AI models that use the same inference-time compute approach as OpenAI.

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Persons: OpenAI, Rahul Sonwalkar, Charlie Snell, He's, I've, Snell, Andrej Karpathy, Jeff Dean, Dean Organizations: o1, Google, Companies, UC Berkeley, Business Locations: Chinese