OpenAI Shows ‘Strawberry’ AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop ‘Orion’

In case you were wondering why Sam Altman cryptically posted a picture of strawberries earlier this month, the answer almost certainly has to do with Strawberry, a mysterious technical breakthrough that could help OpenAI’s models complete complex tasks such as math problems that conversational AI has traditionally struggled with. (If this sounds familiar, it’s likely because Strawberry was previously called Q*.)

Why is Altman being so cheeky? Probably because the word is out. In mid-July, Reuters reported on the existence of Strawberry, and this morning, we published this piece with even more details. 

Plus this summer, his team demonstrated the technology to American national security officials, said a person with direct knowledge of those meetings, which haven’t previously been reported.