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Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

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OpenAI has also invested in several robotics startups such as Figure AI, 1X Technologies, and Physical Intelligence.

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OpenAI announced the release of a new family of AI models, dubbed o3. The company claims the new products are more advanced than its previous models, including o1. The advancements, according to the startup,

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OpenAI has launched the O3 and O3 Mini models, setting a new standard in AI with enhanced reasoning capabilities. Notable achievements include 71.7% accuracy on SWE-Bench and 96.7% on the AIME benchmark.

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