OpenAI develops the smartest artificial intelligence model with enhanced reasoning skills

OpenAI today announced its most capable upgraded version artificial intelligence the model to date—the model that requires more time to think through questions—just one day later Google announced the first model of this type.

OpenAI’s new model, called o3, replaces the company’s o1 was presented in September. Like o1, the new model spends time thinking through the problem to better answer questions that require step-by-step reasoning. (OpenAI chose to skip the “o2” moniker because it’s already the name of a mobile operator in the UK.)

“We see this as the beginning of the next phase of artificial intelligence,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a livestream on Friday. “You can use these models to perform increasingly complex tasks that require a lot of reasoning.”

OpenAI says the o3 model scores higher on several metrics than its predecessor, including those measuring complex coding skills and advanced math and science competency. He is three times better than o1 in answering the questions he asks ARC-AGIa benchmark designed to test the ability of artificial intelligence models to think through extremely difficult mathematical and logical problems encountered for the first time.

Google is pursuing a similar line of research. Yesterday Google researcher Noam Shazeer It was revealed in a post on X the company developed its own reasoning model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Google CEO Sundar Pichai called it “our most thoughtful model yet.” own post. Google’s new model scored high in the SWE-Bench test, which measures the agent capabilities of models.

However, OpenAI’s new o3 model is 20 percent better than o1. “o3 blew it out of the water,” he says About the pressPostdoctoral researcher at Princeton University who helped develop the SWE-Bench. “Very surprising growth, I don’t know how they do it.”

The two dueling models show that the competition between OpenAI and Google is fiercer than ever. It is critical that OpenAI demonstrates that it can continue to make progress as it seeks to attract more investment and build a profitable business. Meanwhile, Google wants to show that it is a pioneer in artificial intelligence research.

The new models also show that AI companies are looking at more than extending their AI models to get more intelligence.