OpenAI Switch-Up: We're Actually Getting ChatGPT o3 Soon

OpenAI surprised folks this week when CEO Sam Altman announced on X/Twitter that the company is switching up its planned release schedule. The next ChatGPT model we can expect to see is o3 and o4-mini, coming soon in the next few weeks. But that means that GPT-5, the next major overhaul we expect for ChatGPT, is being pushed back to later this year. The news is a reversal of a February announcement that OpenAI was integrating o3 and other technology in the upcoming ChatGPT-5 model, meaning that o3 would no longer have its own release. In the meantime, you can use ChatGPT o3-mini. It's a smaller variant of o3, and we can take some clues from that model about what we can expect in o3. The o3-mini model is a reasoning model, meaning it "thinks" about prompts before responding and is better at solving complex problems. Free and paid ChatGPT users can try out o3-mini, which is also seen as a competitor to DeepSeek, the open-source AI that made a huge splash earlier this year. We don't kno ... Read full article.