VentureBeat December 29, 2024
The end of the year 2024 has brought reckonings for artificial intelligence, as industry insiders feared progress toward even more intelligent AI is slowing down. But OpenAI’s o3 model, announced just last week, has sparked a fresh wave of excitement and debate, and suggests big improvements are still to come in 2025 and beyond.
This model, announced for safety testing among researchers, but not yet released publicly, achieved an impressive score on the important ARC metric. The benchmark was created by François Chollet, a renowned AI researcher and creator of the Keras deep learning framework, and is specifically designed to measure a model’s ability to handle novel, intelligent tasks. As such, it provides a meaningful gauge of progress toward truly...