SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Sept 12 it was launching its Strawberry series of AI models designed to spend more time processing answers to queries in order to solve hard problems.

The models, first reported by Reuters, are capable of reasoning through complex tasks and can solve more challenging problems than previous models in science, coding and math, the AI firm said, in a blog post.

OpenAI used the code name Strawberry to refer to the project internally, while it dubbed the models announced on Sept 12 o1 and o1-mini.

The o1 will be available in ChatGPT and its API starting Sept 12, the company said.

Noam Brown — a researcher at OpenAI focused on improving reasoning in the company's models — confirmed in a post on social media platform X that the models were the same as the Strawberry project.

"I'm excited to share with you all the fruit of our effort at OpenAI to create AI models capable of truly general reasoning," Brown wrote.

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