That article is sloppily written enough to say “Early testers report that the AI [i.e. o3 and/or o4-mini] can generate original research ideas in fields like nuclear fusion, drug discovery, and materials science; tasks usually reserved for PhD-level experts” linking, as a citation, to OpenAI’s January release announcement of o3-mini.
That article is sloppily written enough to say “Early testers report that the AI [i.e. o3 and/or o4-mini] can generate original research ideas in fields like nuclear fusion, drug discovery, and materials science; tasks usually reserved for PhD-level experts” linking, as a citation, to OpenAI’s January release announcement of o3-mini.
TechCrunch attributes the rumor to a paywalled article in The Information (and attributes the price to specialized agents, not o3 or o4-mini themselves).