“We’re introducing an updated [chain of thought] for o3-mini designed to make it easier for people to understand how the model thinks,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCruch via email. “With this update, you will be able to follow the model’s reasoning, giving you more clarity and confidence in its responses.”

OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models. The Silicon Valley-based company said Wednesday it has seen various attempts by China-based entities to exfiltrate large volumes of data from its AI tools,

OpenAI's o3-mini model claims similar performance to o1 but at a fraction of the cost, so I put it to the test to find out