Quick Scan
What matters today
OpenAI shipped something genuinely different on September 12. The o1-preview model does not rush to answer. It reasons through a problem step by step before producing output, a method called chain-of-thought thinking.
Format Weekly newsletter issue
Audience Executives using AI at work
Time 8 min read
Topic OpenAI Releases a Model That Thinks -- Here Is What Executives Need to Know
Key points
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Welcome
This issue gives executives a clean scan of OpenAI Releases a Model That Thinks -- Here Is What Executives Need to Know. Start with the quick hits, then use the companion guides for the workflows worth testing this week.
Quick Hits
Top AI Updates
1. OpenAI o1: The Reasoning Model That Thinks Before It Answers
On September 12, OpenAI released a model that pauses before answering. That pause is the entire point. o1-preview uses chain-of-thought reasoning to work through a problem step by step before producing output, and on graduate-level science questions it scores 78.3% versus 56.
2. OpenAI Realtime API: Building Voice AI Applications for Business
Every voice AI product built before September 2024 required three separate systems: speech-to-text, a language model, and text-to-speech. That pipeline introduced two to four seconds of latency per turn, enough to make conversations feel robotic.
3. iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence: The Executive Upgrade Guide
Apple sold the iPhone 16 as the first iPhone built for Apple Intelligence. That framing is accurate but requires one important clarification: the AI features are not on the device yet. The hardware shipped September 20. Apple Intelligence arrives via iOS 18.1 in October.
Pro Tip
o1-preview is not better than GPT-4o at everything. It is measurably better at one specific category: multi-step problems with dependencies, constraints, and no obvious single correct path. That description fits most executive analysis work.
Productivity Gem
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Health Tip
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Kids Tip
Kids create a hands-on AI project: Build a Teachable Machine Image Classifier With Your Kid. A parent or educator helps them build, test, and explain what the AI tool gets right and wrong.
Wrap Up
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About the author
Pierre Bradshaw Founder, PromptHacker.ai
Pierre has spent 25+ years building growth systems across fintech, real estate, lending, campaigns, and AI workflows, with $1.5B+ in client value delivered.
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