The o3-mini variant, also announced Friday, includes an adaptive thinking time feature, offering low, medium, and high processing speeds. The company states that higher compute settings produce better results. OpenAI reports that o3-mini outperforms its predecessor, o1, on the Codeforces benchmark.

OpenAI has launched the test phase for its new reasoning AI models, o3 and o3 mini, aiming to advance problem-solving and stay competitive with tech giants like Google.