It is no secret that Google has stolen a lot of OpenAI’s thunder in the past few days, including with the Gemini Flash 2 Thinking model yesterday. The latest model uses chain of thought reasoning to solve more challenging problems.
Just when you thought it was over… we’re introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, a new experimental model that unlocks stronger reasoning capabilities and shows its thoughts.
The model plans (with thoughts visible), can solve complex problems with Flash speeds, and more 🧵
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) December 19, 2024
OpenAI was not going to sit around and let Google have all the fun. As Sam Altman hinted at it on X, an o3 model seems to be ready to go.
fine one clue
should have said oh oh oh
— Sam Altman (@sama) December 20, 2024
Since this tweet, many have found o3 mentions on OpenAI’s website.
Found references to o3_min_safety_test on the openai site. Seems like a sign-up form to safety test the unannounced reasoning model from OpenAI coming tomorrow. 👀 pic.twitter.com/NbD4Ri64dN
— Colonel Tasty (@JoshhuaSays) December 20, 2024
Nobody knows at this point how much better this model will be than the o1 but it seems OpenAI saved the best for last.