OpenAI, rivals seek new path to smarter AI to overcome delays, challenges

Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-bigger large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to “think”.

A dozen AI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these techniques, which are behind OpenAI’s recently released o1 model, could reshape the AI arms race, and have implications for the types of resources that AI companies have an insatiable demand for, from energy to types of chips.