OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory. Established in December 2015, OpenAI is dedicated to advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI) in a safe and beneficial manner. The organization was founded by a group of influential tech visionaries, including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, and Wojciech Zaremba, among others.
In November 2022, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT model, making it widely available to the general public. ChatGPT’s transformative impact on society at large was immediate. OpenAI's mission revolves around ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
On August 7, 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted an image of strawberries growing in two pots to his X account. The tweet was seen as confirmation that OpenAI is working on the new and powerful large language model (LLM).
What is Open AI's project termed “Strawberry”?
OpenAI is planning to release a new AI product called “Strawberry” (formerly known as Q* and pronounced as "Q Star") in the fall with the ability to solve math problems even without being trained on those and perform tasks like designing market strategies, solving complex word puzzles, and “deep research,” according to a report by The Information, which added that it may most likely be integrated with the latest ChatGPT-4o.
According to the report, Strawberry is a means to overcome the challenge of AI hallucination or giving bogus information, wherein AI models often fall short when it comes to common sense problems whose solutions seem intuitive to humans, like recognizing logical fallacies and playing tic-tac-toe.
The influential California-based tech industry business publication The Information reported on August 26 that Project Strawberry would be better at math and programming than any existing chatbot, quoting “two people who have been involved in the effort.”
The information detailed that a demo by Project Strawberry staff had shown that the new AI model is capable of advanced levels of thinking, which allowed it to solve puzzles, including The New York Times ‘Connections’, a particularly difficult word puzzle.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also vaguely hinted at the product with an August 7, 2024 post of an image with strawberries on his personal handle on X (formerly Twitter) with a caption reading, “i love summer in the garden.”