o1 preview in context In the captured material, o1 preview is introduced as the larger, more advanced version of o1 — the OpenAI model that performs chain-of-thought “thinking”, which makes it better suited for text interpretation [^01a0f15b-0757-72c4-9201-53d55ca674c7@228]. How the channel uses it The term appears in the context of building Hermes, a personal AI reading companion created from scratch in under an hour with Cursor and OpenAI's o1 models. There, model choice is part of the build: o1 preview is the more capable tier of the o1 family, and its chain-of-thought reasoning is what makes it a fit for interpreting text — the core job of a reading companion [^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827]. - o1 preview = the larger, more advanced version of o1. - It performs chain-of-thought “thinking”, improving text interpretation [^01a0f15b-0757-72c4-9201-53d55ca674c7@228]. - It is one of the OpenAI o1 models used while building Hermes in the channel's build-along session [^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827].