OpenAI Is Secretly Working on a New Reasoning Technology Codenamed Project Strawberry

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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is now working on a new reasoning technology codenamed “Strawberry”.

The news came to light through leaks reported by Bloomberg. According to the leak, the company hosted an internal all-hands meeting on Tuesday and showed a demo of this new project that is said to have human-like reasoning and problem-solving skills.

What makes it different is that instead of generating generic text-based responses from documents that have already been fed to it, Project Strawberry will enable AI models to run their own autonomous research. In the words of OpenAI itself, it will help AI models with “deep research”.

Project Strawberry will also help AI handle logical problems such as maths questions and puzzles better.

It has been seen that AI models often struggle with queries that require them to think out of their usual pattern. In these cases, they often end up hallucinating. This is what Strawberry will help fix.

It’s also believed that this project is based on another OpenAI project called Q* which started last year. Apparently, the team was super excited about this project.

Apart from this, most of the details about this project are under wraps. The timeline, its expected release date, or even how OpenAI plans to use “Strawberry” remains a mystery.

OpenAI also didn’t make any official comment on this leak. But a spokesperson from the company said that OpenAI wants its AI models to see and understand the world the way we humans do.

”Continuous research into new AI capabilities is a common practice in the industry, with a shared belief that these systems will improve in reasoning over time” – OpenAI

The Controversial Project Q*

This is the same project Q* which allegedly was the reason for Sam Altman’s firing from the OpenAI board. Experts and OpenAI scientists have also raised questions about the ‘unchecked’ growth of AI to a point where it becomes more powerful than humans.

Around 13 employees resigned from the company in early June. This included co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, an internal member of the OpenAI superalignment team.

As per Jan, the company has deviated from its original principles and no longer prioritizes safety while developing AI models.

Since Strawberry is based on the controversial Project Q*, there can be questions raised about its safety as well.