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OpenAI launches Flex processing for cheaper, slower AI tasks
OpenAI has launched a new API option, Flex processing, for cheaper, slower jobs that leverage its o3 and o4-mini reasoning AI models.
In a bid to more aggressively compete with rival AI companies like Google, OpenAI is launching Flex processing, an API option that provides lower AI model usage prices in exchange for slower response times and “occasional resource unavailability.” Flex processing, which is available in beta for OpenAI’s recently released o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, is aimed at lower-priority and “non-production” tasks such as model evaluations, data enrichment, and asynchronous workloads, OpenAI says. OpenAI previously said ID verification is intended to stop bad actors from violating its usage policies.
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