OpenAI rolled out a new, lightweight artificial intelligence model that it said is capable of humanlike reasoning and makes gains on efficiency — a product that will be closely watched following the release of an open-source model from China’s DeepSeek.

OpenAI is preparing to strike back at DeepSeek with a new artificial intelligence model it plans to release as soon as today, according to a report by Wired. The new model, o3-mini, has o1 level reasoning,

OpenAI released its newest reasoning model, called o3-mini, on Friday. OpenAI says the model delivers more intelligence than OpenAI’s first small reasoning model, o1-mini, while maintaining o1-mini’s low price and speed. The company says o3-mini excels in science, math, and coding problems.

OpenAI has launched a new 'reasoning' AI model, o3-mini, the successor to the AI startup's o1 family of reasoning models.

OpenAI believes DeepSeek used a process called “distillation,” which helps make smaller AI models perform better by learning from larger ones.