“o3-mini Early Days” by Zvi

New model, new hype cycle, who dis?

On a Friday afternoon, OpenAI was proud to announce the new model o3-mini and also o3-mini-high which is somewhat less mini, or for some other reasoning tasks you might still want o1 if you want a broader knowledge base, or if you’re a pro user o1-pro, while we want for o3-not-mini and o3-pro, except o3 can use web search and o1 can’t so it has the better knowledge in that sense, then on a Sunday night they launched Deep Research which is different from Google's Deep Research but you only have a few of those queries so make them count, or maybe you want to use operator?

Get it? Got it? Good.

Yes, Pliny jailbroke o3-mini on the spot, as he always does.

This most mostly skips over OpenAI's Deep Research (o3-DR? OAI-DR?). I need more time for [...]

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Outline:

(01:16) Feature Presentation

(04:37) QandA

(09:14) The Wrong Side of History

(13:29) The System Card

(22:08) The Official Benchmarks

(24:55) The Unofficial Benchmarks

(27:43) Others Report In

(29:47) Some People Need Practical Advice

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First published:
February 3rd, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/srdxEAcdmetdAiGcz/o3-mini-early-days

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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