OpenAI's O3-Mini Arrives With An Unexpected Feature - Free Access
How-To Geek, Friday, January 31st, 2025
Less than one week after DeepSeek's "Sputnik moment," OpenAI is releasing its o3-mini reasoning model to the public. This is the first OpenAI reasoning model that is not tied to a subscription - you can use it for free.
Reasoning models are far more accurate than typical LLMs. They utilize a "chain of thought" system to "think" before answering questions and self-correct mistakes. As a result, they're the ideal option for difficult prompts, especially those that involve difficult math.
The new o3-mini reasoning model is specially designed for science, programming, engineering, and other math-heavy fields. And, per OpenAI, it can go toe-to-toe with the premiere o1 and o1-mini models. This is important because, at $1.10 per million input tokens, o3-mini is half the cost of o1-mini. It's a leap in efficiency that would be recognized as a huge achievement, if not for DeepSeek.