ChatGPT maker OpenAI has finalized a version of its new reasoning AI model o3 mini and will be launching it in a couple of weeks. The Microsoft-backed company has considered user feedback and, consequently, plans to release the application programming interface (API) and ChatGPT simultaneously. Amidst growing competition with rivals such as Alphabet's Google to create smarter AI models, OpenAI said last December that it was testing reasoning AI models, o3 and o3 mini.
The AI startup had planned to launch o3 mini by the end of January, and the full o3 thereafter, as more robust large language models could outperform existing models and attract new investments and users.
In September 2024, the GenAI maker released o1 AI models designed to spend more time processing queries to solve harder problems.
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The o1 models are capable of reasoning through complex tasks and can solve more challenging problems than previous models in science, coding and math, the company had said in a blog post.
The company had said previously that the new o3 and o3 mini models would be more powerful than the previously launched o1 models.
Earlier this week, OpenAI said it was introducing a beta feature called Tasks to ChatGPT, signaling its foray into the virtual assistant space, competing with Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa.
