OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased exactly two weeks ago that o3-mini would ship in “a couple of weeks,” and it’s arriving on time today. OpenAI is launching its latest o3-mini reasoning model inside ChatGPT and its API services and making a version with rate limits available to free users of ChatGPT for the first time.
Originally announced as part of OpenAI’s 12 days of “ship-mas” in December, o3-mini is designed to match o1’s performance in math, coding, and science, while…