

864: OpenAI’s o3-mini: SOTA reasoning and exponentially cheaper
21 snips Feb 21, 2025
Dive into the fascinating world of OpenAI’s o3-mini, showcasing its cutting-edge reasoning capabilities. Discover how it stacks up against top competitors like DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The discussion highlights significant enhancements in logical processing and the novel access through ChatGPT. All of this is packed into a quick yet insightful review that's perfect for tech enthusiasts!
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Reasoning Models
- OpenAI's O3-Mini is a new reasoning model, similar to DeepSeek's R1 and OpenAI's O1.
- Reasoning models solve problems step-by-step, unlike models like GPT-4 or Claude.
O3-Mini Performance
- O3-Mini has three modes (low, medium, and high), with high achieving state-of-the-art performance.
- It outperforms other models on benchmarks like AIM Math, CodeForces, and SWE-bench.
O3-Mini Cost
- O3-Mini is significantly cheaper to run than O1, costing only 7% of the price.
- It's also cost-competitive with DeepSeek R1, especially for US cloud providers.