OpenAI to launch AI models that can think up their own experiments, says report

Following the launch of a brand new family of GPT-4.1 models, a new report from The Information claims OpenAI will soon release two new models capable of performing a task typically reserved for humans -- coming up with scientific experiments. Also: It's a private cloud revival: Why Kubernetes and cloud-native tech are essential in the AI age The new models, dubbed o3 and o4-mini, would be additions to OpenAI's existing line of reasoning models. Simply put, these reasoning models are trained to "think before they speak," which results in a longer time to process the prompt but higher quality responses. These types of models are especially useful for STEM tasks, which would be the focus of o3 and o4-mini. According to the report, the new models will synthesize information from different fields and subject expertise and then use that knowledge to suggest new, innovative experiments.