OpenAI's o1-pro is the Company's Most Expensive AI Model Yet (techcrunch.com)
(Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:30PM (msmash)
from the moving-forward dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/20/0227246/openais-o1-pro-is-the-companys-most-expensive-ai-model-yet
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/openais-o1-pro-is-its-most-expensive-model-yet/
OpenAI has [1]launched a more powerful version of its o1 "reasoning" AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API. From a report:
> According to OpenAI, o1-pro uses more computing than o1 to provide "consistently better responses." Currently, it's only available to select developers -- those who've spent at least $5 on OpenAI API services -- and it's pricey. Very pricey. OpenAI is charging $150 per million tokens (~750,000 words) fed into the model and $600 per million tokens generated by the model. That's twice the price of OpenAI's GPT-4.5 for input and 10x the price of regular.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/openais-o1-pro-is-its-most-expensive-model-yet/
> According to OpenAI, o1-pro uses more computing than o1 to provide "consistently better responses." Currently, it's only available to select developers -- those who've spent at least $5 on OpenAI API services -- and it's pricey. Very pricey. OpenAI is charging $150 per million tokens (~750,000 words) fed into the model and $600 per million tokens generated by the model. That's twice the price of OpenAI's GPT-4.5 for input and 10x the price of regular.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/openais-o1-pro-is-its-most-expensive-model-yet/
Feels like artificial scarcity (Score:2)
To prop up evaluations?
Re: (Score:2)
If the raging bloodbath that is Coreweave's(OpenAI's new pet compute vendor, now that the MS honeymoon has soured a bit) S-1 filing is anything to go by it might genuinely be that expensive, possibly yet another being sold below cost. I assume that some of their high-hype models are at least experiments in trying to break even; but for a technology that is supposedly unleashing a tsunami of efficiency there is shockingly little money in 'AI', once expenses are factored in. A good day to be Nvidia; and enoug