OpenAI has introduced a new AI agent called “deep research” that enables ChatGPT to conduct comprehensive research tasks. The feature, currently available to ChatGPT Pro users with limited queries per month, utilizes OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model to analyze information from multiple web sources and compile detailed reports with citations. The system can process text, PDFs, …
OpenAI has released o3-mini, its latest AI reasoning model that offers improved performance in STEM fields while being more cost-effective than its predecessors. The model, which was previewed in December, is now available through both ChatGPT and OpenAI’s API services. The new model demonstrates significant improvements over o1-mini, with OpenAI reporting 24% faster response times …
Researchers at Hugging Face have launched a project to create an open-source version of DeepSeek’s R1 AI reasoning model. As reported by Kyle Wiggers for TechCrunch, the initiative called Open-R1 aims to duplicate all components of the original model, including training data and methods. Led by Hugging Face’s head of research Leandro von Werra, the …
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has disrupted the artificial intelligence landscape with its newly released R1 model, which matches the performance of OpenAI’s o1 at approximately 3-5% of the cost. The model, launched on January 20, 2025, has quickly become the most downloaded AI model on HuggingFace with over 109,000 downloads, demonstrating significant developer interest. …
Google has released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, a new AI model that can process up to one million tokens of text while showing its reasoning process. According to Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat, the model is available for free through Google AI Studio under the experimental designation “Exp-01-21.” The system achieved a 73.3% score on the …
Reasoning, in the context of artificial intelligence, describes a system’s ability to draw logical conclusions, recognize connections, and derive new insights based on existing information. In AI systems like ChatGPT, reasoning means that they don’t just reproduce memorized answers but can reach independent conclusions by connecting different pieces of information. A simple example: if the …
According to Ben Hylak’s detailed analysis, published as a guest post, OpenAI’s o1 model requires a fundamentally different approach compared to traditional chat models. Hylak, who initially criticized the model but later became a regular user, explains that o1 functions best as a “report generator” rather than a conversational AI. The key to successful o1 …
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has announced the release of its new reasoning-focused language models DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1, along with six smaller distilled versions. The main models, built on DeepSeek’s V3 architecture, feature 671 billion total parameters with 37 billion activated parameters and a context length of 128,000 tokens. According to company statements, DeepSeek-R1 achieves performance …
Researchers at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence have developed a new AI model that shows how it arrives at its conclusions. As reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat, LlamaV-o1 combines visual and textual analysis while providing step-by-step explanations of its reasoning process. The model excels at complex tasks like interpreting financial charts …
OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model and similar AI systems require a different prompting strategy to achieve optimal results. According to an article by Carl Franzen in VentureBeat, users should provide detailed context through “briefs” rather than traditional prompting methods. Former Apple interface designer Ben Hylak demonstrated that letting o1 plan its own analytical steps leads to …