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OpenAI unveiled the o3-mini family—low, medium, and high variants—offering a cheaper, faster, and secure inference model that matches or exceeds the performance of its predecessor o1 across STEM, coding, and general knowledge benchmarks while introducing search integration and enhanced safety features.
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