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OpenAI o4-mini

READER SUMMARY

OpenAI's cost-efficient April 2025 reasoning model with visual reasoning and agentic use of hosted tools.

DOOM SCORE77.9out of 100model risk profile, not the overall index

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1

Why this model scores 77.9

High-throughput reasoning and tool use enable wide agent deployment. Lower capability and hosted safeguards reduce risk relative to o3 while preserving substantial autonomy and misuse potential.

Capability82

Autonomy74

Deployment99

Misuse potential73

Control difficulty62

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MODEL-ATTRIBUTED EVIDENCE

News tied to OpenAI o4-mini

The model score of 77.9 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 63.5 measures the recalibrated complete evidence corpus. These values answer different questions.

NET MODEL-ATTRIBUTED INDEX CONTRIBUTION+0.02

Each article's leave-one-out Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores are recalculated from their technical profile and related news, but never feed back into the overall index.

16 Apr 2025AutonomyTOWARD

OpenAI releases o3 and o4-mini with agentic tool use

OpenAI released o3 and o4-mini in ChatGPT and its APIs with visual reasoning and agentic use of web search, Python, files, image generation and other tools, alongside a system card under its revised Preparedness Framework.

Full item contribution: +0.03
OpenAI o4-mini equal share: +0.02

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Model score history

R1
Doom Score 77.9
Initial exact profile for the April 2025 o4-mini release.
12 Aug 2026