So, so weird that they still don't want you to see their models' reasoning process, to the point that even highly trusted organizations with ZDR contracts only get them in a black-box encrypted form. Gemini has no issue showing its work. Why can't OpenAI?
It's not weird at all. R1-distills have shown that you can get pretty close to the real thing with post-training on enough completions. I believe gemini has also stopped showing the thinking steps (apparently the GLM series of open access models were heavily trained on gemini data).
ToS violations can't be enforced in any effective way, and certainly not cross-borders. Their only way to maintain whatever moat thinking models give them is to simply not show the thinking parts.
And yes, the above is true even if you are ULTRA.
You can still view your old thinking traces from prior turns and conversations.
The customer service itself was surreal enough that it was easier just to migrate to Anthropic