From bgr.com
In the age of AI, new software releases might come when you least expect it. There’s no fixed schedule, with AI firms launching new models and features whenever they feel they are ready for commercial deployment.
Gemini is the best example of that, with Google announcing a few major upgrades and new features in the past few days. The Gemini 2.0 Flash reasoning model now powers Deep Research and Personalization features, for example.
Gemini also received Canvas support similar to ChatGPT’s. It also added NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature, which lets you turn summaries into podcasts. OpenAI doesn’t have that sort of AI functionality in ChatGPT.
But OpenAI gave ChatGPT an upgrade of its own, launching the o1-pro upgrade that joins the likes of o1, o3-mini, and o3-mini-high. ChatGPT o1-pro might be even better for reasoning jobs than the others, but it’s also the most expensive of the bunch. As such, you and I can’t use it unless we pay extra.
ChatGPT o1-pro was released for ChatGPT Pro, the premium tier that costs $200/month to use, last December. A few months later, OpenAI is now ready to give developers access to o1-pro, as long as they can afford the higher price.
OpenAI announced the ChatGPT o1-pro developer release on X, teasing the model’s better performance, but also the increased costs:
It uses more compute than o1 to provide consistently better responses. Available to select developers on tiers 1–5. Supports vision, function calling, Structured Outputs, and works with the Responses and Batch APIs. With more compute, comes more cost: $150 / 1M input tokens and $600 / 1M output tokens.
One million tokens account for about 750,000 words. Similarly to o1 and o3-mini, o1-pro has a context window of about 200,000 tokens.
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