OpenAI Soft-launches AGI with o3 Models, Enters Next Phase of AI

As OpenAI’s ‘12 days of shipmas’ comes to a close, the company soft-announced AGI through the introduction of the next-generation frontier models o3 and o3 Mini. These models achieve state-of-the-art performance, nearing 90%, on the ARC-AGI benchmark, surpassing human performance. Much has changed in a span of one month. In November, Sam Altman hinted that they might have achieved this benchmark internally. However, Francois Chollet, the creator of  ARC-AGI benchmark, disregarded this claim as premature. Yesterday, with the ‘o’ family of models virtually saturating the benchmark, the ARC team announced a newer, upgraded evaluation (ARC-AGI benchmark 2). Although not yet publicly available, these frontier models will now be accessible to researchers for public safety te