OpenAI Races to Launch ‘Strawberry’ Reasoning AI to Boost Chatbot Business

As OpenAI looks to raise more capital, its researchers are trying to launch a new artificial intelligence product they believe can reason through tough problems much better than its existing AI.

Researchers have aimed to launch the new AI, code-named Strawberry (previously called Q*, pronounced Q Star), as part of a chatbot—possibly within ChatGPT—as soon as this fall, said two people who have been involved in the effort. Strawberry can solve math problems it hasn't seen before—something today’s chatbots cannot reliably do—and also has been trained to solve problems involving programming. But it’s not limited to answering technical questions.