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OpenAI o3-mini is Here!
Bennett Kim
February 02, 2025
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Open AI o3-mini: The Mini Marvel That Does Big Things
Well, guess what? OpenAI has decided to grace us with its latest reasoning model, o3-mini, and it's arriving just on time—no delays, no excuses. After Sam Altman casually hinted “in a couple of weeks” and left us all waiting, o3-mini is now strutting its stuff inside ChatGPT and API services. For the free users among us, yes, you heard that right: you get a taste of o3-mini’s smarts (with some rate limits, because why not keep us humble?).
Promising to outshine its predecessor o1, the new model boasts faster, sharper answers, especially in math, coding, and science—fields where we desperately need a little extra magic. OpenAI even claims that o3-mini is 24% faster than o1-mini. Faster? Check. More accurate? Double-check. And, much like its older sibling, it’s not just dishing out answers but showing off its work. Finally, proof that even AI can be transparent about its homework.
Developers, rejoice! You can now leverage o3-mini via OpenAI’s API services, including the Chat Completions, Assistants, and Batch APIs. And for those with a taste for premium AI, there’s the o3-mini-high option. It’s billed as the “best coding option in ChatGPT”—delivering smarter responses that might take a teeny bit longer to generate. Because, apparently, good things come with a slight delay.
In a strategic twist, this marks the first time free ChatGPT users can play with OpenAI’s reasoning models. This move comes on the heels of Microsoft’s free o1 release for Copilot users and DeepSeek’s recent AI shakeup. So, if you fancy a trial run, simply select the Reason feature in ChatGPT. Plus and Teams users will enjoy a generous 150 messages per day, while the elite Pro users shell out $200 a month for unlimited access.
Oh, and for the enterprise crowd: o3-mini is also available via Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, GitHub Copilot, and GitHub models. Clearly, the mini model is going big in the world of AI!
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