OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest reasoning model that the company says is largely on par with o1 and o1-mini in capabilities, but runs faster and costs less
OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI “reasoning” model, o3-mini, the newest in the company's o family of reasoning models.
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OpenAI says o3-mini will be available to all ChatGPT users, the first time that free users of the chatbot will be able to try out the company's reasoning models
the first ‘reasoning model’ that's free in ChatGPT Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin : OpenAI launches o3-mini reasoning model in ChatGPT and the API Ben Sherry / Inc : OpenAI Just Released o3-mini, Its Mo...
OpenAI's o3-mini costs $1.10 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens, cheaper than GPT-4o, which costs $2.50 and $10, and o1, which costs $15 and $60
Simon Willison's Weblog : X: @simonw and @daniel_mac8 . Forums: Hacker News X: Simon Willison / @simonw : Has anyone seen anything interesting done with that increased output limit yet? o1 has 100,00...
In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI's lead and said OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” in terms of open sourcing
To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman …
DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies should share about their AI breakthroughs, many of which have been detailed in scientific papers
DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much companies should share their AI knowledge
WhatsApp says it disrupted a campaign in which 90 journalists and other members of civil society were targeted using spyware from Israel-based Paragon
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A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issues a ban on the use of Chinese-backed apps DeepSeek, Lemon8, Moomoo, RedNote, Tiger Brokers, and Webull on government-issued devices
a point groups like @StateArmor have long made. Greg Abbott / @gregabbott_tx : Texas will NOT allow the CCP to infiltrate our state's critical infrastructure through data-harvesting. Today, I ordered ...
Sources: Meta is discussing moving its incorporation from Delaware to Texas or another state, after Elon Musk's similar moves; the change wouldn't affect its HQ
if they go to Texas it's more evidence of zucking up to Musk by Mark. It makes no sense from any legal perspective. — If they land in Nevada, it's because they don't like corporate governance respo...
India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an “expanded scope” compared to previous initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups
India announced a new $1.15 billion Fund of Funds for startups on Saturday while unveiling sweeping regulatory reforms …
Researchers: DeepSeek's R1 failed to detect or block any of 50 randomly selected malicious prompts; Adversa says DeepSeek's restrictions can easily be bypassed
Unit 42 researchers recently revealed two novel and effective jailbreaking … Victor Tangermann / Futurism : DeepSeek Failed Every Single Security Test, Researchers Found Ivan Novikov / Wallarm : Analy...
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California DMV: a total of 4.5M autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, down 50% YoY, with driverless testing falling 83% YoY to just 552,895 miles
Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California's public roads …
Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India contributing 15.6% of all downloads since its launch
- The chatbot is most-downloaded app across Android and iPhone — Chinese startup has upended thinking about AI development
MLCommons and Hugging Face release Unsupervised People's Speech, a dataset for AI research containing more than 1M hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages
MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release …
Source: OpenAI told some shareholders that ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers in 2024, up from 5.8M in 2023, and usage of OpenAI's API increased seven-fold
Paid subscribers to ChatGPT nearly tripled to 15.5 million last year from 5.8 million a year earlier, OpenAI recently told some shareholders …
Instagram and Facebook, which blocked news links in Canada, are hosting hundreds of scam ads pretending to be from news outlets ahead of Canadian elections
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Docs: Amazon will spend $16B to build two Mississippi data center campuses, up from $10B it announced a year ago, underscoring rising AI infrastructure costs
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CCData: the supply of stablecoins on Solana jumped by 112% in January to a record high of $11.1B, as the launch of the TRUMP memecoin caused a wave of inflows
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Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol
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