# Why OpenAI's o1 Is A Huge Deal

**Author:** Garry Tan
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ll-why-openai-s-o1-is-a-huge-deal
**YouTube ID:** Lv9bKyQgoHo

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OpenAI’s newest model, o1, makes huge leaps forward in domains like mathematics and coding and scores big on many of the
toughest benchmarks. The secret to its success? It represents an entirely new class of models designed to reason or
“think through” complex problems.   
  
For the very first episode of YC Decoded, we took a look inside.

