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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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- 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
- www.unite.ai: Inside OpenAI’s o3 and o4‑mini: Unlocking New Possibilities Through Multimodal Reasoning and Integrated Toolsets
- 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
- composio.dev: OpenAI o3 vs. Gemini 2. 5 Pro vs. o4-mini
- Towards AI: Details about Open AI's Agentic O3 models
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OpenAI has launched its latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, marking a significant upgrade in the company's offerings. According to Greg Brockman of OpenAI, these models "feel incredibly smart" and are already demonstrating potential in generating novel ideas for top scientists. These models are designed to provide better access to tools and enhance the ability to discern when to use them, ultimately delivering more practical value. The focus is on effective tool utilization, stringing tasks together, and maintaining persistence, which are key strengths of the o3 model. Sam Altman has announced the forthcoming release of o3-pro to the pro tier in the coming weeks.
The o3 model, in particular, is highlighted for its capabilities and tool use. It excels in scenarios requiring image generation, with or without reasoning, provided o3 has the necessary tools. It has been used to answer questions and helps with writing its own review. However, concerns have been raised regarding the naming conventions, with confusion surrounding the relationship between models like 4o-mini, o4-mini, and o4-mini-high. Usage is limited to 50 queries a week for o3, 150 a day for o4-mini and 50 a day for o4-mini-high for plus users, with 10 Deep Research queries per month.
The o3 and o4-mini models bring smarter tools and faster reasoning to ChatGPT, allowing the models to decide when to invoke web search, Python, file analysis, or image generation tools, finishing multi-step tasks in under a minute. The models can also "think with images," accepting sketches or screenshots and adjusting them during reasoning. O3 sets new highs on Codeforces and SWE‑bench and makes 20% fewer major errors than o1, while the leaner o4‑mini scores 99.5% pass‑at‑1 on the 2025 AIME with tools and offers higher rate limits. The new features are currently available to Pro and Team subscribers, with Enterprise, Education tiers and API access to follow soon.
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References :
- thezvi.wordpress.com: Thezvi WordPress post discussing OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models.
- Interconnects: Interconnects.ai article about OpenAI's o3 over-optimization.
- TestingCatalog: testingcatalog.com article about OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini bringing smarter tools and faster reasoning to ChatGPT
- thezvi.wordpress.com: OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini. Greg Brockman (OpenAI): Just released o3 and o4-mini! These models feel incredibly smart. We’ve heard from top scientists that they produce useful novel ideas. Excited to see their …
- www.techrepublic.com: OpenAI’s New AI Models o3 and o4-mini Can Now ‘Think With Images’
- bdtechtalks.com: OpenAI's new reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, enhance problem-solving capabilities and tool use, making them more effective than their predecessors.
- bdtechtalks.com: What to know about o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI’s new reasoning models
- THE DECODER: OpenAI has made the Deep Research tool in ChatGPT available to free-tier users. Access is limited to five uses per month, using a lightweight version based on the o4-mini-model.
- TestingCatalog: OpenAI may have increased the o3 model's quota to 50 messages/day and added task-scheduling to o3 and o4 Mini. An "o3 Pro" tier might be on the horizon.
- www.tomsguide.com: OpenAI has unveiled a cheaper but less effective deep research tool that'll be used across tiers and also available for free.
- TestingCatalog: OpenAI tests Deep Research Mini tool for free ChatGPT users
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OpenAI has recently launched its o3 and o4-mini models, marking a shift towards AI agents with enhanced tool-use capabilities. These models are specifically designed to excel in areas such as web search, code interpretation, and memory utilization, leveraging reinforcement learning to optimize their performance. The focus is on creating AI that can intelligently use tools in a loop, behaving more like a streamlined and rapid-response system for complex tasks. The development underscores a growing industry trend of major AI labs delivering inference-optimized models ready for immediate deployment.
The o3 model stands out for its ability to provide quick answers, often within 30 seconds to three minutes, a significant improvement over the longer response times of previous models. This speed is coupled with integrated tool use, making it suitable for real-world applications requiring quick, actionable insights. Another key advantage of o3 is its capability to manipulate image inputs using code, allowing it to identify key features by cropping and zooming, which has been demonstrated in tasks such as the "GeoGuessr" game.
While o3 demonstrates strengths across various benchmarks, tests have also shown variances in performance compared to other models like Gemini 2.5 and even its smaller counterpart, o4-mini. While o3 leads on most benchmarks and set a new state-of-the-art with 79.60% on the Aider polyglot coding benchmark, the costs are much higher. However, when used as a planner and GPT-4.1, the pair scored a new SOTA with 83% at 65% of the cost, though still expensive. One analysis notes the importance of context awareness when iterating on code, which Gemini 2.5 seems to handle better than o3 and o4-mini. Overall, the models represent OpenAI's continued push towards more efficient and agentic AI systems.
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References :
- bdtechtalks.com: OpenAI's new reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, enhance problem-solving capabilities and tool use, making them more effective than their predecessors.
- Data Phoenix: OpenAI has launched o3 and o4-mini, which combine sophisticated reasoning capabilities with comprehensive tool integration.
- THE DECODER: OpenAI's new language model o3 shows concrete signs of deception, manipulation and sabotage behavior for the first time.
- thezvi.wordpress.com: OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini.
- Simon Willison's Weblog: I'm surprised to see a combined System Card for o3 and o4-mini in the same document - I'd expect to see these covered separately. The opening paragraph calls out the most interesting new ability of these models (see also
- techstrong.ai: Nobody’s Perfect: OpenAI o3, o4 Reasoning Models Have Some Kinks
- Analytics Vidhya: OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models have advanced reasoning capabilities. They have demonstrated success in problem-solving tasks in various areas, from mathematics to coding, with results showing potential advantages in efficiency and capabilities compared to prior generations.
- pub.towardsai.net: Louie Peters analyzes OpenAI's o3, DeepMind's Gemma, and Nvidia's Nemotron-H, focusing on inference-optimized open-weight models.
- Towards AI: Towards AI Editorial Team on OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models, emphasizing tool use and agentic capabilities.
- composio.dev: OpenAI o3 vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. o4-mini
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OpenAI has released its latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, designed to enhance reasoning and tool use within ChatGPT. These models aim to provide users with smarter and faster AI experiences by leveraging web search, Python programming, visual analysis, and image generation. The models are designed to solve complex problems and perform tasks more efficiently, positioning OpenAI competitively in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Greg Brockman from OpenAI noted the models "feel incredibly smart" and have the potential to positively impact daily life and solve challenging problems.
The o3 model stands out due to its ability to use tools independently, which enables more practical applications. The model determines when and how to utilize tools such as web search, file analysis, and image generation, thus reducing the need for users to specify tool usage with each query. The o3 model sets new standards for reasoning, particularly in coding, mathematics, and visual perception, and has achieved state-of-the-art performance on several competition benchmarks. The model excels in programming, business, consulting, and creative ideation.
Usage limits for these models vary, with o3 at 50 queries per week, and o4-mini at 150 queries per day, and o4-mini-high at 50 queries per day for Plus users, alongside 10 Deep Research queries per month. The o3 model is available to ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers, while the o4-mini models are used across ChatGPT Plus. OpenAI says o3 is also beneficial in generating and critically evaluating novel hypotheses, especially in biology, mathematics, and engineering contexts.
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- Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI are really emphasizing tool use with these: For the first time, our reasoning models can agentically use and combine every tool within ChatGPT—this includes searching the web, analyzing uploaded files and other data with Python, reasoning deeply about visual inputs, and even generating images. Critically, these models are trained to reason about when and how to use tools to produce detailed and thoughtful answers in the right output formats, typically in under a minute, to solve more complex problems.
- the-decoder.com: OpenAI’s new o3 and o4-mini models reason with images and tools
- venturebeat.com: OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini, AI models that ‘think with images’ and use tools autonomously
- www.analyticsvidhya.com: o3 and o4-mini: OpenAI’s Most Advanced Reasoning Models
- www.tomsguide.com: OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models
- Maginative: OpenAI’s latest models—o3 and o4-mini—introduce agentic reasoning, full tool integration, and multimodal thinking, setting a new bar for AI performance in both speed and sophistication.
- THE DECODER: OpenAI’s new o3 and o4-mini models reason with images and tools
- Analytics Vidhya: o3 and o4-mini: OpenAI’s Most Advanced Reasoning Models
- www.zdnet.com: These new models are the first to independently use all ChatGPT tools.
- The Tech Basic: OpenAI recently released its new AI models, o3 and o4-mini, to the public. Smart tools employ pictures to address problems through pictures, including sketch interpretation and photo restoration.
- thetechbasic.com: OpenAI’s new AI Can “See†and Solve Problems with Pictures
- www.marktechpost.com: OpenAI Introduces o3 and o4-mini: Progressing Towards Agentic AI with Enhanced Multimodal Reasoning
- MarkTechPost: OpenAI Introduces o3 and o4-mini: Progressing Towards Agentic AI with Enhanced Multimodal Reasoning
- analyticsindiamag.com: Access to o3 and o4-mini is rolling out today for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users.
- THE DECODER: OpenAI is expanding its o-series with two new language models featuring improved tool usage and strong performance on complex tasks.
- gHacks Technology News: OpenAI released its latest models, o3 and o4-mini, to enhance the performance and speed of ChatGPT in reasoning tasks.
- www.ghacks.net: OpenAI Launches o3 and o4-Mini models to improve ChatGPT's reasoning abilities
- Data Phoenix: OpenAI releases new reasoning models o3 and o4-mini amid intense competition. OpenAI has launched o3 and o4-mini, which combine sophisticated reasoning capabilities with comprehensive tool integration.
- Shelly Palmer: OpenAI Quietly Reshapes the Landscape with o3 and o4-mini. OpenAI just rolled out a major update to ChatGPT, quietly releasing three new models (o3, o4-mini, and o4-mini-high) that offer the most advanced reasoning capabilities the company has ever shipped.
- THE DECODER: Safety assessments show that OpenAI's o3 is probably the company's riskiest AI model to date
- shellypalmer.com: OpenAI Quietly Reshapes the Landscape with o3 and o4-mini
- BleepingComputer: OpenAI details ChatGPT-o3, o4-mini, o4-mini-high usage limits
- TestingCatalog: OpenAI’s o3 and o4‑mini bring smarter tools and faster reasoning to ChatGPT
- simonwillison.net: Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
- bdtechtalks.com: What to know about o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI’s new reasoning models
- bdtechtalks.com: What to know about o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI’s new reasoning models
- thezvi.wordpress.com: OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini. Greg Brockman (OpenAI): Just released o3 and o4-mini! These models feel incredibly smart. We’ve heard from top scientists that they produce useful novel ideas. Excited to see their …
- thezvi.wordpress.com: OpenAI has upgraded its entire suite of models. By all reports, they are back in the game for more than images. GPT-4.1 and especially GPT-4.1-mini are their new API non-reasoning models.
- felloai.com: OpenAI has just launched a brand-new series of GPT models—GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano—that promise major advances in coding, instruction following, and the ability to handle incredibly long contexts.
- Interconnects: OpenAI's o3: Over-optimization is back and weirder than ever
- www.ishir.com: OpenAI has released o3 and o4-mini, adding significant reasoning capabilities to its existing models. These advancements will likely transform the way users interact with AI-powered tools, making them more effective and versatile in tackling complex problems.
- www.bigdatawire.com: OpenAI released the models o3 and o4-mini that offer advanced reasoning capabilities, integrated with tool use, like web searches and code execution.
- Drew Breunig: OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models offer enhanced reasoning capabilities in mathematical and coding tasks.
- TestingCatalog: OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini bring smarter tools and faster reasoning to ChatGPT
- www.techradar.com: ChatGPT model matchup - I pitted OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, GPT-4o, and GPT-4.5 AI models against each other and the results surprised me
- 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.
- Last Week in AI: OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding, OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, Google’s newest Gemini AI model focuses on efficiency, and more!
- techcrunch.com: OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more.
- computational-intelligence.blogspot.com: OpenAI's new reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, are a step up in certain capabilities compared to prior models, but their accuracy is being questioned due to increased instances of hallucinations.
- www.unite.ai: unite.ai article discussing OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini new possibilities through multimodal reasoning and integrated toolsets.
- Unite.AI: On April 16, 2025, OpenAI released upgraded versions of its advanced reasoning models.
- Digital Information World: OpenAI’s Latest o3 and o4-mini AI Models Disappoint Due to More Hallucinations than Older Models
- techcrunch.com: TechCrunch reports on OpenAI's GPT-4.1 models focusing on coding.
- Analytics Vidhya: o3 vs o4-mini vs Gemini 2.5 pro: The Ultimate Reasoning Battle
- THE DECODER: OpenAI's o3 achieves near-perfect performance on long context benchmark.
- the-decoder.com: OpenAI's o3 achieves near-perfect performance on long context benchmark
- www.analyticsvidhya.com: AI models keep getting smarter, but which one truly reasons under pressure? In this blog, we put o3, o4-mini, and Gemini 2.5 Pro through a series of intense challenges: physics puzzles, math problems, coding tasks, and real-world IQ tests.
- Simon Willison's Weblog: This post explores the use of OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models for conversational AI, highlighting their ability to use tools in their reasoning process. It also discusses the concept of
- Simon Willison's Weblog: The benchmark score on OpenAI's internal PersonQA benchmark (as far as I can tell no further details of that evaluation have been shared) going from 0.16 for o1 to 0.33 for o3 is interesting, but I don't know if it it's interesting enough to produce dozens of headlines along the lines of "OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini hallucinate way higher than previous models"
- techstrong.ai: Techstrong.ai reports OpenAI o3, o4 Reasoning Models Have Some Kinks.
- www.marktechpost.com: OpenAI Releases a Practical Guide to Identifying and Scaling AI Use Cases in Enterprise Workflows
- Towards AI: OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models have demonstrated promising improvements in reasoning tasks, particularly their use of tools in complex thought processes and enhanced reasoning capabilities.
- Analytics Vidhya: In this article, we explore how OpenAI's o3 reasoning model stands out in tasks demanding analytical thinking and multi-step problem solving, showcasing its capability in accessing and processing information through tools.
- pub.towardsai.net: TAI#149: OpenAI’s Agentic o3; New Open Weights Inference Optimized Models (DeepMind Gemma, Nvidia…
- composio.dev: OpenAI o3 vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. o4-mini
- Composio: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini are out. They are two reasoning state-of-the-art models. They’re expensive, multimodal, and super efficient at tool use.
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Microsoft is enhancing its Copilot Studio platform with new 'deep reasoning' capabilities, allowing AI agents to solve complex problems more effectively. This upgrade also includes 'agent flows' which blend AI's flexibility with structured business automation. The new Researcher and Analyst agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot represent a significant step forward in AI agent evolution, enabling them to handle sophisticated tasks requiring detailed analysis and methodical thinking.
Microsoft's Security Copilot service is also getting a boost with a set of AI agents designed to automate repetitive tasks, freeing up security professionals to focus on more critical threats. These AI agents are designed to assist with critical tasks such as phishing, data security, and identity management. These agents showcase the breadth of what can be created when combining enterprise business data, access to advanced reasoning models, and structured workflows.
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- SiliconANGLE: Microsoft 365 Copilot gets AI reasoning skills for advanced research and analysis
- TechCrunch: Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot
- Ken Yeung: Microsoft Adds Deep Reasoning to Copilot Studio and Launches Reasoning Agents for M365
- AI News | VentureBeat: Microsoft infuses enterprise agents with deep reasoning, unveils data Analyst agent that outsmarts competitors
- www.zdnet.com: Microsoft 365 Copilot's two new AI agents can speed up your workflow
- Microsoft Security Blog: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Security Copilot agents and new protections for AI
- The Verge: Microsoft adds ‘deep reasoning’ Copilot AI for research and data analysis
- MSPoweruser: Microsoft’s 365 Copilot gets Researcher and Analyst, two new agents to help you out
- Source Asia: Introducing two, first-of-their-kind reasoning agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- www.zdnet.com: Microsoft's new AI agents aim to help security pros combat the latest threats
- www.techradar.com: Microsoft reveals OpenAI-powered Copilot AI agents to bosot your work research and data analysis
- www.itpro.com: Microsoft launches new security AI agents to help overworked cyber professionals
- SiliconANGLE: Microsoft introduces AI agents for Security Copilot
- www.techrepublic.com: Microsoft 365 Copilot’s ‘First-of-Their-Kind Reasoning Agents’ — Here’s What They Do
- www.computerworld.com: Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents provide real-time answers on how data is being analyzed and sourced to reach results.
- The Microsoft Cloud Blog: We’ve collected more than 200 real-life examples of how organizations are partnering with Microsoft and leveraging our proven AI capabilities to achieve their strategic ambitions and solve real business challenges.
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