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Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

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So far, it seems like this is the hierarchy o1 > GPT-4o > o3-mini > o1-mini > GPT-4o-mini o3 mini system card: https://cdn.openai.com/o3-mini-system-card.pdf

For non-stem perhaps.

For math/coding problems, o3 mini is tied if not better than o1.

Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

#82

> While OpenAI o1 remains our broader general knowledge reasoning model, OpenAI o3-mini provides a specialized alternative for technical domains requiring precision and speed. I feel like this naming scheme is growing a little tired. o1 is for general knowledge reasoning, o3-mini replaces o1-mini but might be more specialized than o1 for certain technical domains...the "o" in "4o" is for "omni" (referring to its mult…

They really need someone in marketing. If the model is for technical stuff, then call it the technical model. How is anyone supposed to know what these model names mean? The only page of theirs attempting to explain this is a total disaster. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models

Yes, this $300Bn company generating +$3.4Bn in revenue needs to hire marketing expert. They can begin by sourcing ideas from us here to save their struggling business from total marketing disaster.

Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

#83

Did anyone else notice that o3-mini's SWE bench dropped from 61% in the leaked System Card earlier today to 49.3% in this blog post, which puts o3-mini back in line with Claude on real-world coding tasks? Am I missing something?

The caption on the graph explains.

> including with the open-source Agentless scaffold (39%) and an internal tools scaffold (61%), see our system card .

I have no idea what an "internal tools scaffold" is but the graph on the card that they link directly to specifies "o3-mini (tools)" where the blog post is talking about others.

Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

#84
post #43

Haven't used openai in a bit -- whyyy did they change "system" role (now basically an industry-wide standard) to "developer"? That seems pointlessly disruptive.

They mention in the model card, it's so that they can have a separate "system" role that the user can't change, and they trained the model to prioritise it over the "developer" role, to combat "jailbreaks". Thank God for DeepSeek.

Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

#86
post #37
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think OpenAI really needs to rethink its product naming, especially now that they have a portfolio where there's no such clear hierarchy, but they have a place along different axis (speed, cost, reasoning, capabilities, etc). Your summary attempt e.g. also misses o3-mini vs o3-mini-high. Lots of trade-ofs.

They're strongly tied to Microsoft, so confusing branding is to be expected.

One of my favorite parodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

#87

I’ll take the China Deluxe instead, actually. I’ve been incredibly pleased with DeepSeek this past week. Wonderful product, I love seeing its brain when it’s thinking.

I am running the 7B distilled version locally. I asked it to create a skeleton MEAN project. Everything was great but then it started to generate the front-end and I noticed the file extension (.tsx) and then saw react getting imported.

I gave the same prompt to sonnet 3.5 and not a single hiccup.

Maybe not an indication that Deepseek is worse/bad (I am using a distilled version), but moreso speaks to much react/nextjs is out in the world influencing the front-end code that is referenced.

Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

#88

Did anyone else notice that o3-mini's SWE bench dropped from 61% in the leaked System Card earlier today to 49.3% in this blog post, which puts o3-mini back in line with Claude on real-world coding tasks? Am I missing something?

I think this is with and without "tools." They explain it in the system card:

> We evaluate SWE-bench in two settings: > *• Agentless*, which is used for all models except o3-mini (tools). This setting uses the Agentless 1.0 scaffold, and models are given 5 tries to generate a candidate patch. We compute pass@1 by averaging the per-instance pass rates of all samples that generated a valid (i.e., non-empty) patch. If the model fails to generate a valid patch on every attempt, that instance is considered incorrect.

> *• o3-mini (tools)*, which uses an internal tool scaffold designed for efficient iterative file editing and debugging. In this setting, we average over 4 tries per instance to compute pass@1 (unlike Agentless, the error rate does not significantly impact results). o3-mini (tools) was evaluated using a non-final checkpoint that differs slightly from the o3-mini launch candidate.

Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

#89

> While OpenAI o1 remains our broader general knowledge reasoning model, OpenAI o3-mini provides a specialized alternative for technical domains requiring precision and speed. I feel like this naming scheme is growing a little tired. o1 is for general knowledge reasoning, o3-mini replaces o1-mini but might be more specialized than o1 for certain technical domains...the "o" in "4o" is for "omni" (referring to its mult…

They really need someone in marketing. If the model is for technical stuff, then call it the technical model. How is anyone supposed to know what these model names mean? The only page of theirs attempting to explain this is a total disaster. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models

> How is anyone supposed to know what these model names mean?

Normies don't have to know - ChatGPT app focuses UX around capabilities and automatically picks the appropriate model for capabilities requested; you can see which model you're using and change it, but don't need to.

As for the techies and self-proclaimed "AI experts" - OpenAI is the leader in the field, and one of the most well-known and talked about tech companies in history. Whether to use, praise or criticize, this group of users is motivated to figure it out on their own.

It's the privilege of fashionable companies. They could name the next model ↂ-↊↋, and it'll take all of five minutes for everyone in tech (and everyone on LinkedIn) to learn how to type in the right Unicode characters.

EDIT: Originally I wrote \Omega-↊↋, but apparently HN's Unicode filter extends to Greek alphabet now? 'dang?

Re: OpenAI O3-Mini

#90
200k context window

$1.1/m for input

$4.4/m for output

I assume thinking medium and hard would consume more tokens.

I feel the timing is bad for this release especially when deepseek R1 is still peaking. People will compare and might get disappointed with this model.

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