OpenAI Fights Back Against DeepSeek AI With Early o3-Mini Launch—Here’s How It Compares – Decrypt

OpenAI rushed to defend its market position Friday with the release of o3-mini, a direct response to Chinese startup DeepSeek’s R1 model that sent shockwaves through the AI industry by matching top-tier performance at a fraction of the computational cost.

“We’re releasing OpenAI o3-mini, the newest, most cost-efficient model in our reasoning series, available in both ChatGPT and the API today” OpenAI said in an official blog post. “Previewed in December 2024⁠, this powerful and fast…