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With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

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OpenAI announced o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning model, is now available to ChatGPT Pro and Team users.

The company also reduced API pricing for the model by 87 percent compared to o1-pro while cutting o3 prices by 80 percent .

While "reasoning" is useful for some analytical tasks, new studies have posed fundamental questions about what the word actually means.

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