OpenAI rolls out upgrade to reasoning model, new dev tools [Video]

Analyst calls latest launch ‘something of a defensive move’ in order to keep up with AWS, Google, and Microsoft in AI development space.

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The release Tuesday by OpenAI of OpenA1 o1, its reasoning model, in API, along with three new sets of tools for developers, is a “smart move that keeps [it] in the corporate/enterprise conversation, as so many customers are shifting their focus towards agentic applications over simpler chat-based applications,” an industry analyst said.

Jason Andersen, VP and principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategies, also described it as “something of a defensive move, since we have seen AWS, Google, and Microsoft releasing API-based multi-model development frameworks such as Bedrock and AI Foundry.”

Some of those frameworks, he said, “do have OpenAI as a potential model target, but they also have new features such as model routing, which means that there is no guarantee that the framework vendor will …