The OpenAI o3-mini, previewed in December 2024, has been launched by OpenAI as its “most cost-efficient model” in its reasoning collection. The o3-mini’s power lies in science, math, and coding, and it is optimized for STEM reasoning.
OpenAI says that o3-mini offers a specialised different for tech domains that require velocity and precision, and with medium reasoning efforts, it matches the o1’s efficiency in science, math, and coding whereas delivering sooner responses. The corporate additionally mentioned that o3-mini was 24% sooner than o1-mini in A/B testing, with a mean response time of seven.7s in comparison with o1-mini’s 10.16s.
The o3-mini is OpenAI’s first small reasoning mannequin supporting extremely requested developer options, together with operate calling, developer messages, and Structured Outputs. Moreover, it’ll assist streaming, and builders could have the choice to select from three reasoning efforts – low, medium, and excessive. o3-mini may even work with search to search out up-to-date solutions with hyperlinks to related sources on the net.
The o3-mini is already accessible to ChatGPT Plus, Group, and Professional subscribers. It may be chosen from the mannequin picker, the place it’ll exchange the o1-mini. All paid customers could have the choice to decide on “o3-mini-high” within the mannequin picker if they’re prepared to commerce response time for greater intelligence.
ChatGPT Professional customers could have limitless entry to each o3-mini and o3-mini-high, whereas Plus and Group customers will get a better price restrict – up from 50 messages/day with o1-mini to 150 messages/day with the o3-mini.
ChatGPT’s free customers not having any subscription can attempt o3-mini by deciding on “Reason” within the message composer or by regenerating a response, making o3-mini OpenAI’s first reasoning mannequin that is accessible to free customers in ChatGPT. It is also accessible in Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service.
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