🏴‍☠️ The Smartest AI You Can Use

Silicon Valley Needed a Win—This Is It

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Captain YAR
February 04, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

Silicon Valley was on edge.

China’s Qwen and Deepseek models had just shaken the AI world, leaving U.S. tech giants scrambling.

It felt like a race we were losing, until OpenAI fired back. o3-mini arrived, a reasoning model built not just to compete, but to dominate.

This model is a game-changer.

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The AI That Actually Thinks

Most AIs spit out information. o3-mini solves problems.

It's built for science, math, and coding, which means it doesn’t just guess, it calculates, deduces, and reasons through complex tasks faster than its predecessors.

If you’ve ever wished for a tool that could actually help you figure things out, this is it.

Why You Should Care

  • It’s the first reasoning model for gratis-tier users. That means zero expense barriers to using an AI that actually works for real-world problem-solving.

  • It’s 24 percent faster than the previous model and almost as accurate as the much larger o1 model at medium reasoning levels.

  • It doesn’t just respond—it evaluates. The model applies a "deliberative alignment" process to reason through safety concerns before generating an answer. That’s next-level thinking in AI that makes interactions more reliable.

  • It’s built for STEM minds. Whether you need step-by-step calculus solutions, debugged code, or a scientific breakdown of black hole thermodynamics, it delivers accurate, structured answers better than generalist models.

What You Can Do With It

  • Solve Equations – Example: "Solve the integral of ( \int x^2 e^x dx ) step by step."

  • Debug Code – Example: "Write a Python script to sort a list of dictionaries by a specific key."

  • Analyze Science Concepts – Example: "Explain the process of photosynthesis in detail."

  • Tutoring Help – Example: "How does Newton’s second law apply to circular motion?"

  • Automate Workflows via API – Example: "Generate a JSON output summarizing this dataset with averages and totals."

How To Use It

  • In ChatGPT: Grais users can select the "Reason" option. Paid users (Plus, Team, Pro) can switch between o3-mini and the high-reasoning version.

  • Through API: Developers can integrate it into apps via Chat Completions API, Assistants API, and Batch API for larger-scale applications.

  • Message Limits: Gratis users with daily caps, while paid plans increase limits, with Pro offering no-limit usage for deep thinkers.

If you’ve ever wanted an AI that actually thinks, this is it. No fluff, just results.

Try it, challenge it, and see what it can really do.

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Imagine you’ve just received a mysterious message from an alternate version of yourself living in a parallel universe.

Your task is to use an AI (like ChatGPT) to decode the message, uncover clues about this alternate reality, and piece together what your other self is trying to warn you about.

Write down your findings and share your wildest discoveries, we might feature your reality-bending insights in the next issue!