OpenAI is slowly inviting selected users to test a whole new set of reasoning models named o3 and o3 mini, successors to the o1 and o1-mini models that just entered full release earlier this month.

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Over the last week, OpenAI’s place atop the AI model hierarchy has been heavily challenged by Chinese model DeepSeek. Today, OpenAI struck back with the public release of o3-mini, its latest simulated ...

OpenAI has released a new proprietary AI model in time to counter the rapid rise of open source rival DeepSeek-R1 — but will it be enough to blunt the latter's success? Today, after several days of ...

UPDATE: Apr. 16, 2025, 2:18 p.m. EDT Now that the OpenAI livestream has ended, this article has been updated with the latest information about the o3 and o4-mini launch. OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models ...

On the last day of OpenAI's 12 days of 'shipmas,' the company unveiled its latest models, o3 and o3-mini, which excel at reasoning and even outperform o1 on a series of benchmarks, including math and ...

OpenAI just released o3-mini, a reasoning model that’s faster, cheaper, and more accurate than its predecessor. On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it’s rolling OpenAI's reasoning model o1 out to ...

OpenAI announced on Wednesday the launch of o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and work through questions before responding. The company calls o3 its most advanced reasoning ...

First reported by TechCrunch, OpenAI's system card detailed the PersonQA evaluation results, designed to test for hallucinations. From the results of this evaluation, o3's hallucination rate is 33 ...

OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI “reasoning” model, o3-mini, the newest in the company’s o family of reasoning models. OpenAI first previewed the model in December alongside a more capable system ...