OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks to answer the hype and enthusiasm swirling around a new open-source offering from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.
WIRED previously reported that OpenAI was prepping the new model, called o3-mini, for release on January 31. The company’s researchers have been working overtime to get it ready for prime time, according to sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
o3-mini, which OpenAI teased in December, is a smaller version of the model that features the most advanced AI reasoning capabilities of any OpenAI offering to date. The model can break difficult problems
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