Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

twitter.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

371–380 of 518 posts

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#371

Post by finebalance »

jjani wrote: post #297
miki123211 wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gemini doesn't give you reasoning via API though, at least as far as I'm aware.

If by reasoning you mean showing CoT, Gemini and OA are the same in this regard - neither provides it, not through the UI nor through the API. The "summaries" both provide have zero value and should be treated as non-existent. Anthropic exposes reasoning, which has become a big reason to use them for reasoning tasks over the other two despite their pricing. Rather ironic when the other two have been pushing reasoning…

Google exposes their reasoning. You can use their new gemini python sdk to get thought traces.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#372

Post by hhh »

conradev wrote: post #288
artrockalter wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

There is an ISO standard for digital ID, the same one used by the TSA, and it’s coming to the web soon! Human verification is going to continue to grow in importance.

which standard is that?

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#373

Post by therein »

SunlitCat wrote: post #354
jjani wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bit strange to see such new accounts already priming everyone to think this is acceptable and normal, which it isn't, hence OA having started doing this months ago and still not a single other provider has it, despite offering just as powerful models. It's not like Google and Anthropic have launched their own Worldcoin either.

Especially what does it have to do with that "these models are getting more powerful"?

Basically the earmark of a narrative OpenAI loves to push covertly, and often overtly. I wouldn't be shocked if these are bots.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#374

Post by gloosx »

_joel wrote: post #370
gloosx wrote: post #363

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>ID Check Just send them a random passport photo from the Internet, what's the deal? Probably they are just vibe-verifying the photo with "Is it legit passport?" prompt anyways.

I think modern face verification has moved on, it's been video in all my encounters.

still no real human is involved, as they mention their verification is automated and prohabilistic — which is especially funny to hear in context of verification. Im pretty sure even a kid can go around it, e.g. on the video showing a photo of a person holding his passport which you can find online.

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#375

Post by gloosx »

sneak wrote: post #365
gloosx wrote: post #363

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>ID Check Just send them a random passport photo from the Internet, what's the deal? Probably they are just vibe-verifying the photo with "Is it legit passport?" prompt anyways.

It requires video and an app. They are collecting facial biometrics.

App? So you cannot verify without a mobile phone?

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#376

Post by TiredOfLife »

7bit wrote: post #355
wqaatwt wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are stories about e.g. Hetzner requiring all sorts of data from people who want to open/verify accounts so perhaps not. Might just be an anti “money laundering” thing. Especially if the credit card company ends up refunding everything..

What stories? Can you back up that claim with some sources please?

https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/search?q=id

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#377

Post by conradev »

hhh wrote: post #372
conradev wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is an ISO standard for digital ID, the same one used by the TSA, and it’s coming to the web soon! Human verification is going to continue to grow in importance.

which standard is that?

https://www.aamva.org/publications-news/aamva-news/aamva-spe...

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#378

Post by conradev »

sothatsit wrote: post #274
hiatus wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> which, after using it, fair! It found a zero day Source?

Recently, Sean Heelan wrote a post "How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation". It might be what they are referring to. Link: https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-...

Yep, that’s the one!

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#379

Post by fragmede »

tedsanders wrote: post #328
energy123 wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it o3 (low), o3 (medium) or o3 (high)? Different model names have crept into the various benchmarks over the last few months.

o3 is a model, and reasoning effort (high/medium/low) is a parameter that goes into the model. o3 pro is a different thing - it’s not just o3 with maximum remaining effort.

Could someone there maybe possibly use, oh I dunno, ChatGPT and come up with some better product names?

Re: OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

#380

Post by bonki »

ddtaylor wrote: post #314
34679 wrote: post #226

I'd like to offer a cautionary tale that involves my experience after seeing this post. First, I tried enabling o3 via OpenRouter since I have credits with them already. I was met with the following: "OpenAI requires bringing your own API key to use o3 over the API. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations " So I decided I would buy some API credits with my OpenAI account. I ponied up $20 and started…

I also am using OpenRouter because OpenAI isn't a great fit for me. I also stopped using OpenAI because they expire your API credits even if you don't use them. Yeah, it's only $10, but I'm not spending another dime with them.

I wonder if they do this everywhere, in certain jurisdictions this is illegal.
Post reply on HN