🚀 OpenAI Announces o3 & o4-mini: The Next Leap in Super-Smart, Tool-Savvy AI

AI just hit a new level. OpenAI has announced the release of OpenAI o3 and o4-mini, its most intelligent and resourceful artificial intelligence models yet. Not only are they smarter, but they’re also more capable than ever before able to think through problems for longer and use every tool inside ChatGPT all on their own.

🧠 What Makes o3 and o4-mini So Revolutionary?

• Deeper Thinking: These models are designed to "think twice” before responding, solving much tougher problems with sharper analysis and creativity.
• Supercharged Tool Use: For the first time, AI can search the web, analyze files, code in Python, crunch data, and process images—all within a single conversation.
• Automatic Tool Chaining: They know when and how to combine tools (like web search + data analysis + image generation) to give super-detailed answers, almost like having a mini research team working for you.

🏆 State-of-the-Art Benchmarks: How Smart Are They?

• OpenAI o3 is now the king in areas like coding, math, visual perception, and science—ranking #1 on Codeforces and academic math challenges.
  • Makes 20% fewer major errors vs. previous models on hard, real-world tasks!
• OpenAI o4-mini is the new lightweight champion, running fast and cheap while still acing tough math and coding problems. It’s the top performer for its size on major math contests (AIME 2024/2025) and handles high-throughput questions like a breeze.

Head-to-Head Results:

• Big leap in competition math (AIME: 93.4% accuracy for o4-mini!)
• Visual reasoning that beats old models by up to 23 percentage points
• Analytical power for deep business, coding, and science questions
• More natural, chatty conversations and better memory for your past questions

 

📷 Seeing, Understanding, and Doing: Now With Images

The new models don’t just "look” at images—they reason with them. Snap a blurry photo of a whiteboard or a chart, and o3/o4-mini can analyze, annotate, and even manipulate the image as part of their answer. They can figure out which ship is biggest in a harbor pic, rotate diagrams, or interpret math problems directly from photos.

🤖 Towards Next-Level AI Assistants ("Agentic AI”)

OpenAI is pushing ChatGPT toward "agentic” capabilities—the ability for the AI to act on your behalf, handling multi-step workflows and custom tools.

• Think: "How will summer energy use in California compare to last year?”—and the AI will search, code, generate graphs, and explain everything with the latest data automatically.

💸 Smarter = Cheaper: More Intelligence, Less Cost

Both o3 and o4-mini offer more brains for less money compared to previous models. Whether you need deep research or fast bulk answers, OpenAI’s cost-performance charts show efficiency up and prices down—perfect for startups, researchers, and AI enthusiasts.

🛡️ More Capable, More Safe

With great power comes great responsibility. OpenAI re-built safety systems for o3/o4-mini, training them to refuse dangerous requests and giving them watchdog monitors for things like security, bio-risk, and more. 99% of risky prompts are flagged before they can cause harm.

🔥 How Do You Try Them?

• ChatGPT (Plus/Team/Enterprise): o3 and o4-mini are in the model selector now! Free users get o4-mini under "Think.”
• Developers: Available via API—plus new "Codex CLI” lets you use frontier AI reasoning right from your terminal.
• Companies & Educators: Enterprise/Edu access coming in a week.

The future of AI just arrived: smarter, faster, safer, and finally able to handle anything you throw at it.

Try OpenAI o3 and o4-mini today →