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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.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM61confidence 97/100

Why it moved the index

Frontier reasoning combined with autonomous selection and composition of broadly consequential tools materially expands complex-task capability, deployment and misuse potential.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 61 · confidence 97

    New exact agentic reasoning-model release with no durable identity or event collision.

    12 Aug 2026