I wish they'd just reveal the CoT (like gemini and deepseek do), it's very helpful to see when the model gets misled by something in your prompt. Paying for tokens you aren't even allowed to see is peak OpenAI.
Notice the deliberate wording. To me this implies we aren't getting the raw CoT.
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I care mostly about batching in Vertex AI, which is 17-30x times cheaper than competition (whether you use prompt caching or not) while allowing for audio, video, and arbitrary document filetype inputs; unfortunately Gemini 1.5 Pro/Flash have remained the two so-called "stable" options that are available there. I can appreciate Google's experimental models for all I can, but I cannot take them seriously until they allow me to have my sweet, sweet batches.