OpenAI unveils new o3 and o3 mini models, to be launched next year

On the last day of the 12-day-long ‘Shipmas’, OpenAI revealed its new set of frontier reasoning models named o3 and o3-mini. The models have only been previewed, and OpenAI is not releasing them any time soon.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company has plans to launch the o3 mini by the end of January and the full o3 sometime later. This is because Altman feels that more robust LLMs could outperform existing models and lure new investors and users.