OpenAI o3-mini brings advanced reasoning to all users

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Here is what we have Today:

• 🔍 ChatGPT's Deep Research: Google Killer? Reports in 30 mins

• 💡 OpenAI's O3-mini: AI for everyone, cheaper?

• 🤖 Microsoft builds AI ethics war room - What's brewing?

• 💻 $30 AI Model: Hackers Crack DeepSeek Code

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

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🧠 AI Supercharges Research – OpenAI’s Deep Research is Here!

OpenAI just dropped a game-changer. Meet Deep Research, a powerful AI assistant that scans the web, analyzes sources, and delivers detailed reports with citations—all in under 30 minutes.

🔎 How it works:

• Uses a specialized o3 model to process text, images, and PDFs across multiple sources.

• Summarizes findings into comprehensive research reports with clear citations.

• Kicks off with clarifying questions and updates users when results are ready.

🚀 Who gets access?

• Currently for Pro users ($200/mo) with 100 queries/month.

• If testing goes well, Plus and Team users could gain access in weeks.

📊 Impressive results:
Deep Research scored 26.6% on Humanity’s Last Exam—crushing competitors like Gemini Thinking (6.2%) and GPT-4o (3.3%).

💡 Why it matters
ChatGPT is great for quick answers, but Deep Research takes AI to the next level—handling complex research in minutes, not days. Alongside OpenAI’s Operator, AI is shifting towards longer thinking, deeper analysis, and autonomous problem-solving.

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🧠 OpenAI Drops o3-mini – Faster, Smarter, and Cheaper Than Ever

OpenAI just dropped a game-changer. Meet o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model that boosts STEM capabilities for both free and paid users—all while slashing costs and response times.

The details:

✅ Free users get reasoning abilities for the first time.
✅ Paid users can send up to 150 messages daily—a big upgrade.
✅ Faster & Smarter: o3-mini excels in math and coding, matching or outperforming o1 while responding 24% quicker.
✅ Custom Reasoning: Developers can adjust the AI’s effort level (low, medium, high) to balance speed vs. accuracy.
✅ Cost Savings: Runs 63% cheaper than before—just $1.10 per million tokens.

Why it matters:

While DeepSeek has been grabbing headlines, OpenAI is making moves. o3-mini gives free-tier users their first real taste of AI reasoning, setting the stage for the full o3 model, expected in a few months. The AI arms race isn’t slowing down.

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• Jackery has invented a curved solar powered roof which featured at the CES convention, has a conversion rate of 25% which is higher then other solar panels. the panels are hail resistant and can store energy for later use.

• U.S. AI czar David Sacks shared a new report estimating DeepSeek has spent over $1B on computing, calling the $6M training cost number ‘highly misleading.’

• OpenAI held a Reddit AMA following the launch of its o3-mini model, with CEO Sam Altman, CPO Kevin Weil, and others tackling questions ranging from candid commentary on open-source tech to upcoming feature and model timelines. Altman states he personally thinks ‘we have been on the wrong side of history’ regarding open source and that OpenAI needs to figure out a strategy.

• Microsoft is creating a new Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its AI business division, to help them understand the societal, health, and work implications of the AI systems and features it intends to build, and, from this, will be expected to make recommendations for products.

• UC Berkeley team, led by PhD candidate Jiayi Pan, claims to have recreated the core technology behind DeepSeek’s R1 Zero model for only $30. Their smaller-scale version, dubbed “TinyZero,” is now available on GitHub for public testing, successfully replicating key behaviors seen in R1 Zero using reinforcement learning.

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