OpenAI's GPT-o3 Reasoning Model Is Ready for Prime Time

OpenAI o3, the developer's most advanced generative AI reasoning model yet, is here. The new family of models promises strong performance in coding, math, science and visual understanding, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. The new model is available for paying ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Team users. Free users can also try out the new reasoning capability by selecting "Think" from the drop down menu before entering a prompt. Education and enterprise users will have access in one week. You'll still have your usual rate limits when you use the new model. OpenAI touts o3 as a smart AI model with the ability to reason (meaning it can recursively check its answers before giving you a final output) and to independently use all of ChatGPTs' tools, including web browsing, Python, image understanding and image generation. OpenAI says this helps solve complex multi-step problems. Along with o3, OpenAI also announced o4-mini, a faster and cheaper reasoning model that can take on math ... Read full article.