Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Wednesday, June 11th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. OpenAI

rolls out an O3 Pro model, Android one-ups iOS with a quick release. So far, so good for the launch

of the Switch 2. What is Google doing with its headcount and is essentially a giant hologram,

the future of video calls?

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

OpenAI has debuted O3 Pro for ChatGPT Pro and team users and in its API, costing $20 per 1 million input and $80 per 1 million output tokens.

Enterprise and EDU will get access next week, quoting TechCrunch.

O3Pro is also live in OpenAI's developer APIs as of this afternoon. In expert evaluations,

reviewers consistently prefer O3 pro over O3 in every tested category and especially in key domains

like science, education, programming, business, and writing help. Open AI writes in a change log.

Reviewers also rated O3 Pro consistently higher for clarity, comprehensiveness, instruction following,

and accuracy. O3Pro has access to tools, according to OpenAI, allowing it to search the web,

analyze files, reason about visual inputs, use Python, personalize its responses, leveraging memory,

and more. As a drawback, the model's responses typically take longer than O1 Pro to complete,

according to OpenAI. O3 Pro has other limitations to temporary chats with the model and chat GPT are

disabled for now while OpenAI resolves a technical issue. O3Pro can't generate images and canvas,

OpenAI's AI-powered workspace feature isn't supported by O3 Pro, end quote.

But what is it like to use? Our friends over at Leighton Space have a hands-on saying O3

is much smarter than O3 and amazing at using tools. But the model requires a lot of context to

run well, and without enough context, it tends to overthink.

Quote, the key I discovered was to not chat with it. Instead, treat it like a report generator.

Give it context, give it a goal, and let it rip. And that's exactly how I use O3 today.

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