OpenAI’s New o1 Models Now Available on Cursor

OpenAI’s latest o1 models are now available on Cursor. The o1 models have demonstrated exceptional performance in handling well-defined and complex reasoning tasks.

Source:  X 

Initially, the o1 models will be offered under a usage-based pricing model. Cursor plans to adjust the pricing structure as usage rates increase and refine the model’s rate limits over time. 

OpenAI recently dropped o1, or what some people call Strawberry or Q*. The new model from OpenAI is solving complex problems with its improved reasoning capabilities in areas such as science, coding, and math. However, the real treat for developers is o1-mini, a smaller model designed specifically for advanced coding. 

Cursor has been receiving a lot of attention from the developer community lately, leading many to shift away from GitHub Copilot for certain use cases. Several developers have already been using o1 through the API on Cursor. For instance, a user on X combined OpenAI o1 and Cursor Composer to create an iOS app in under 10 minutes. 

Cursor AI is being built by a team of developers constituting Anysphere, which started only two years back. It raised a seed funding of $8 million from the OpenAI Startup Fund, which also included participation from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi. 

Meanwhile, according to sources, Microsoft has plans to upgrade its capabilities on the VS Code IDE, which would help it compete with Cursor.  

The new model has already been integrated within GitHub Copilot and is making AI pair programming a lot smarter. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke posted on X a video of GitHub Copilot in VS Code running with OpenAI’s o1 model, which he calls “flat out badass”. 

On the other hand, Devin’s creator, Cognition Labs, worked closely with OpenAI over the last few weeks to evaluate OpenAI o1’s reasoning capabilities with Devin. They found that the new series of models represents a significant improvement for agentic systems that deal with code.