OpenAI introduces o3, o4-mini reasoning models

Sam Altman‘s OpenAI released its latest reasoning models o3 and o4-mini on Wednesday. The new o-series models, which the AI platform said are its most advanced yet, can respond to queries by combining every tool available with ChatGPT, including web searches, Python codes, and images. Combined with custom tools deployed by users, OpenAI is trying to get closer to the goal of enabling ChatGPT to independently execute tasks.

The models have been trained to think for longer before responding, using the tools at their disposal to generate responses in the…