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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step
Will Knight | Wired
“The company today announced a new advance that signals a shift in approach—a model that can ‘reason’ logically through many difficult problems