# OpenAI introduces o3-mini

> OpenAI introduced o3-mini as a small reasoning model for science, coding, and mathematics. The announcement described adjustable reasoning effort, function calling, Structured Outputs, and API availability, as well as a staged ChatGPT rollout. Benchmark results in the release remain vendor-reported measurements under stated evaluation conditions.

Canonical: https://hypler.com/ai-news/openai-o3-mini-2025
Hypler publication: 2026-10-06
Original source date: 2025-01-31
Publisher: OpenAI
Article kind: source-briefing
Category: Models
Tags: reasoning, OpenAI, API

## Engineering relevance

Reasoning controls can support workload-specific tradeoffs, but the right setting is empirical. Hypler should measure quality, latency, cost, and failure patterns for the exact tasks a system handles.

## Original source

- [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/)

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