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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model, o3-mini, communicates its step-by-step “thought” process. On Thursday, OpenAI ...