IMO, I think that most of the reason why they are not releasing CoT for o1 is exactly because of PR/competitive reasons, or this reason in a nutshell:
I hope it’s merely that it didn’t want to show its unaligned “thoughts”, and to prevent competitors from training on its useful chains of thought.
IMO, I think that most of the reason why they are not releasing CoT for o1 is exactly because of PR/competitive reasons, or this reason in a nutshell: