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OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek
On the heels of DeepSeek R1, the latest model from OpenAI promises more advanced capabilities at a cheaper price.
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. Several weeks ago, the company began recruiting PhD computer science students at $100 per hour for a “research collaboration” that would “involve working on unreleased models”, according to an email viewed by WIRED. The company says that the latest model will also incorporate new features, including the ability to tap into web searches, call functions from a user’s code, and toggle between different reasoning levels that trade off speed for problem solving capabilities.
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