Rolf van Root / UnsplashTable of ContentsTable of ContentsDay 1: OpenAI unleashes its o1 reasoning model and introduces ChatGPT ProDay 2: OpenAI expands its Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research programDay 3: OpenAIs Sora video generator has finally arrived. Huzzah?Day 4: OpenAI expands its CanvasDay 5: ChatGPT teams up with Apple IntelligenceDay 6: Advanced Voice Mode now has the power of sight and can speak SantaDay 7: OpenAI introduces Projects for ChatGPTDay 8: ChatGPT Search is now available to everybodyDay 9: the full o1 model comes to OpenAIs APIDay 10: 1-800-ChatGPTDay 11: ChatGPT now works with even more coding appsDay 12: OpenAI teases its upcoming o3 and o3-mini reasoning modelsOpenAI kicked off its inaugural 12 Days of OpenAI media blitz on December 5, each day unveiling new features, models, subscription tiers, and capabilities for its growing ChatGPT product ecosystem during a series of live-stream events.Heres a quick rundown of everything the company announced.Recommended VideosOpenAI o1 and o1 pro mode in ChatGPT 12 Days of OpenAI: Day 1OpenAI kicked off the festivities with a couple major announcements. First, the company revealed the full-function version of its new o1 family of reasoning models and announced that they would be immediately available, albeit in limited amounts, to its $20/month Plus tier subscribers. In order to get full use of the new model (as well as every other model that OpenAI offers, plus unlimited access to Advanced Voice Mode), users will need to spring for OpenAIs newest, and highest, subscription package: the $200/month Pro tier. Reinforcement Fine-Tuning12 Days of OpenAI: Day 2On the events second day, the OpenAI development team announced that it is expanding its Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research program, which allows developers to train the companys models as subject matter experts that excel at specific sets of complex, domain-specific tasks, according to the programs website. Though it is geared more toward institutes, universities, and enterprises than individual users, the company plans to make the programs API available to the public early next year.RelatedSora12 Days of OpenAI: Day 3On the third day of OpenAI, Sam Altman gave to me: Sora video generation. Yeah, OK, so the cadence for that doesnt quite work but hey, neither does Sora. OpenAIs long-awaited and highly touted video generation model, which has been heavily hyped since February, made its official debut on December 9 to middling reviews. Turns out that two years into the AI boom, being the leading company in the space and only rolling out 20-second clips at 1080p doesnt really move the needle, especially when many of its competitors already offer similar performance without requiring a $20- or $200-per-month subscription.Canvas12 Days of OpenAI: Day 4OpenAI followed up its Sora revelations with a set of improvements to its recently released Canvas feature, the companys answer to Anthropics Artifacts. During its Day 4 live stream, the OpenAI development team revealed that Canvas will now be integrated directly into the GPT-4o model, making it natively available to users at all price tiers, including free. You can now run Python code directly within the Canvas space, enabling the chatbot to analyze it directly and offer suggestions for improvement, as well as use the feature to construct custom GPTs.ChatGPT x Apple Intelligence12 Days of OpenAI: Day 5On day five, OpenAI announced that it is working with Apple to integrate ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence, specifically Siri, allowing users to invoke the chatbot directly through iOS. Apple had announced that this would be a thing back when it first unveiled Apple Intelligence but, with the release of iOS 18.2, that functionality is now a reality. If only Apples users actually wanted to use Apples AI.Santa Mode & Video in Advanced Voice12 Days of OpenAI: Day 62024 was the year that Advanced Voice Mode got its eyes. OpenAI announced on Day 6 of its live-stream event that its conversational chatbot model can now view the world around it through a mobile devices video camera or via screen sharing. This will enable users to ask the AI questions about their surroundings without having to describe the scene or upload a photo of what theyre looking at. The company also released a seasonal voice for AVM which mimics Jolly Old St. Nick, just in case you dont have time to drive your kids to the mall and meet the real one in person.Projects12 Days of OpenAI: Day 7OpenAI closed out the first week of announcements with one that is sure to bring a smile to the face of every boy and girl: folders! Specifically, the company revealed its new smart folder system, dubbed Projects, which allows users to better organize their chat histories and uploaded documents by subject.Search12 Days of OpenAI: Day 8OpenAIs ChatGPT Search function, which debuted in October, is now available to all logged-in users, regardless of their subscription tier. The feature works by searching the internet for information about the users query, scraping the info it finds from relevant websites, and then synthesize that data into a conversational answer. It essentially eliminates the need to click through a search results page and is functionally identical to what Perplexity AI offers, allowing ChatGPT to compete with the increasingly popular app. Be warned, however: a recent study has shown the feature to be confidently wrong in many of its answers.Dev Day Holiday Edition12 Days of OpenAI: Day 9Like being gifted a sweater from not one but two aunts, OpenAI revealed on day nine that it is allowing select developers to access the full version of its o1 reasoning model through the API. The company is also rolling out real-time API updates, a new model customization technique called Preference Fine-Tuning, and new SDKs for Go and Java.1-800-CHAT-GPT12 Days of OpenAI: Day 10In an effort to capture that final market segment that it couldnt already reach specifically, people without internet access OpenAI has released the 1-800-ChatGPT (1-800-242-8478) chatline. Dial in from any land or mobile number within the U.S. to speak with the AIs Advanced Voice Mode for up to 15 minutes for free.Work with Apps12 Days of OpenAI: Day 11Last month, OpenAI granted the Mac-based desktop version of ChatGPT the ability to interface directly with a number of popular coding applications, allowing its AI to pull snippets directly from them rather than require users to copy and paste the code into its chatbots prompt window. On Thursday, the company announced that it is drastically expanding the number of apps and IDEs that ChatGPT can collaborate with. And its not just coding apps; ChatGPT now also works with conventional text programs like Apple Notes, Notion, and Quip. You can even launch Advanced Voice Mode in a separate window as you work, asking questions and getting suggestions from the AI about your current project.OpenAI o3 and o3-mini12 Days of OpenAI: Day 12For the 12th day of OpenAIs live-stream event, CEO Sam Altman made a final appearance to discuss what the company has in store for the new year specifically, its next-generation reasoning models, o3 and o3-mini. The naming scheme is a bit odd (and done to avoid copyright issues with U.K. telecom, O2) but the upcoming models reportedly offer superior performance on some of the industrys most challenging math, science, and coding benchmark tests even compared to o1, the full version of which was formally released less than a fortnight ago. The company is currently offering o3-mini as a preview to researchers for safety testing and red teaming trials, though theres no word yet on when everyday users will be able to try the models for themselves.Editors Recommendations