# What is the difference of o1?

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/what-is-the-difference-of-o1/958148>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** ai-reasoning\
**Created:** [September 26, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/what-is-the-difference-of-o1/958148 "2024-09-26T22:40:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![porton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/porton/32/449948_2.png) [@porton](https://community.openai.com/u/porton)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/what-is-the-difference-of-o1/958148/1 "2024-09-26T22:40:41Z")

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What is the difference of o1 series models from plain transformers?

A transformer can generate a series of thoughts, separating them, say by “###”. How are o1 “forced” to do a different thing than a plain transformer would do? How is it forced to add the next thought, not just to add to a previous one, as a plain GPT would do?

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**Author:** ![\_j](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/_j/32/766292_2.png) [@\_j](https://community.openai.com/u/_j)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/what-is-the-difference-of-o1/958148/2 "2024-09-26T23:44:18Z")

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“How it works” would be a good start for that which OpenAI wants to portray and reveal.

[https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/](https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/)

[https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/](https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/)