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Some thoughts:
* The performance is really good. I have a private set of questions I note down whenever gpt-4o/sonnet fails. o1 solved everything so far.
* It really is quite slow
* It's interesting that the chain of thought is hidden. This is I think the first time where OpenAI can improve their models without it being immediately distilled by open models. It'll be interesting to see how quickly the oss field can catch up technique-wise as there's already been a lot of inference time compute papers recently [1,2]
* Notably it's not clear whether o1-preview as it's available now is doing tree search or just single shoting a cot that is distilled from better/more detailed trajectories in the training distribution.