Isn't that the exact point of o1, that it has time to think for itself without reprompting?

yeah but they aren't letting you see the useful chain of thought reasoning that is crucial to train a good model. Everyone will replicate this over next 6 months

>Everyone will replicate this over next 6 months

Not without a billion dollars worth of compute, they won't.

Are you sure its a billion? Helps with estimating the training run