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OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini Models Advance AI Reasoning

OpenAI recently unveiled its groundbreaking o3 and o4-mini AI models, representing a significant leap in visual problem-solving and tool-using artificial intelligence. These models can manipulate and reason with images, integrating them directly into their problem-solving process. This unlocks a new class of problem-solving that blends visual and textual reasoning, allowing the AI to not just see an image, but to "think with it." The models can also autonomously utilize various tools within ChatGPT, such as web search, code execution, file analysis, and image generation, all within a single task flow.

These models are designed to improve coding capabilities, and the GPT-4.1 series includes GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano. GPT-4.1 demonstrates enhanced performance and lower prices, achieving a 54.6% score on SWE-bench Verified, a significant 21.4 percentage point increase from GPT-4o. This is a big gain in practical software engineering capabilities. Most notably, GPT-4.1 offers up to one million tokens of input context, compared to GPT-4o's 128k tokens, making it suitable for processing large codebases and extensive documentation. GPT-4.1 mini and nano also offer performance boosts at reduced latency and cost.

The new models are available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users, with Enterprise and education users gaining access soon. While reasoning alone isn't a silver bullet, it reliably improves model accuracy and problem-solving capabilities on challenging tasks. With Deep Research products and o3/o4-mini, AI-assisted search-based research is now effective.

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References :
  • bdtechtalks.com: What to know about o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI’s new reasoning models
  • TestingCatalog: OpenAI’s o3 and o4‑mini bring smarter tools and faster reasoning to ChatGPT
  • thezvi.wordpress.com: OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini. These models feel incredibly smart.
  • venturebeat.com: OpenAI launches groundbreaking o3 and o4-mini AI models that can manipulate and reason with images, representing a major advance in visual problem-solving and tool-using artificial intelligence.
  • www.techrepublic.com: OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini models are available now to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users. Enterprise and education users will get access next week.
  • the-decoder.com: OpenAI's o3 achieves near-perfect performance on long context benchmark
  • the-decoder.com: Safety assessments show that OpenAI's o3 is probably the company's riskiest AI model to date
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  • thezvi.wordpress.com: Discusses the release of OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini reasoning models and their enhanced capabilities.
  • Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card
  • Interconnects: OpenAI's o3: Over-optimization is back and weirder than ever. Tools, true rewards, and a new direction for language models.
  • techstrong.ai: Nobody’s Perfect: OpenAI o3, o4 Reasoning Models Have Some Kinks
  • bsky.app: It's been a couple of years since GPT-4 powered Bing, but with the various Deep Research products and now o3/o4-mini I'm ready to say that AI assisted search-based research actually works now
  • www.analyticsvidhya.com: o3 vs o4-mini vs Gemini 2.5 pro: The Ultimate Reasoning Battle
  • pub.towardsai.net: TAI#149: OpenAI’s Agentic o3; New Open Weights Inference Optimized Models (DeepMind Gemma, Nvidia Nemotron-H) Also, Grok-3 Mini Shakes Up Cost Efficiency, Codex, Cohere Embed 4, PerceptionLM & more.
  • Last Week in AI: Last Week in AI #307 - GPT 4.1, o3, o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Veo 2
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