Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Thursday, April 17th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. OpenAI has a new

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

More models, everybody.

OpenAI has launched O3, its most advanced AI reasoning model yet,

as well as 04 Mini, a lower cost alternative that still delivers, according to them,

impressive results for chat GPT paid users. Quoting in Gadget, a mere two days after announcing GPT4-1, OpenAI is releasing

not one but two new models. The company today announced the public availability of 03 and

04 Mini. Of the former, OpenAI says O3 is its most advanced reasoning model yet, with it

showing strong performance in coding, math, and science tasks. As for O3Mini, OpenAI is billing

it as a lower cost alternative that still delivers impressive results across those same fields.

More notably, both models offer novel capabilities not found in OpenAI's past systems.

For the first time, the company's reasoning models can use and combine all of the tools

available in chat GPT, including web browsing and image generation. The company says this

capability allows O3 and 04 Mini to solve challenging multi-step problems more effectively,

and, quote, take real steps toward acting independently. At the same time, O3 and O4 Mini can not just see images, but also interpret and think about them

in a way that significantly extends their visual processing capabilities.

For instance, you can upload images of whiteboards, diagrams, or sketches, even poor-quality ones,

and the new models will understand them.

They can also adjust the images as part of how they reason.

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