I really don't get the point of those oX-mini models for chat apps. (API is different, we can benchmark multiple models for a given recurring taks and choose the best one taking costs into consideration). As part of my job, I am trying to promote usage of AI in my company (~150 FTE); we have an OpenAI chatGPT plus subscription for all employees.
Roughly speaking the message is: "use GPT-4o all the time, use o1 (soon o3) if you have more complex tasks". What am I supposed to answer when people ask "when am I supposed to use o3-mini ? . And what the heck is o3-mini-high, how do I know when to use it ?".
People aren't gonna ask the same question to 5 different models and burn all their rate limits; yet it feels that what's openAI is hoping people will do.
Put those weirs models in a sub-menu for advanced users if you really want to, but is you can use o1 there is probably no reason for you to hake o3-mini and o3-mini-high as additional options.
99% of what people use ChatGPT is for very mundane stuff. Think “translate this email to English”, “fix spelling mistakes”, “write this better for me”. Data extraction (list of emails) is big as well. You don’t need o1 for that; and people make lot of those requests per day.
Additionally, o1 does not have access to search and multimodality and taking a screenshot of something and asking questions about it is also a big use case.
It’s easy to overlook how widely ChatGPT is used for very small stuff. But compounded it’s still a game changer for many people.
Roughly speaking the message is: "use GPT-4o all the time, use o1 (soon o3) if you have more complex tasks". What am I supposed to answer when people ask "when am I supposed to use o3-mini ? . And what the heck is o3-mini-high, how do I know when to use it ?". People aren't gonna ask the same question to 5 different models and burn all their rate limits; yet it feels that what's openAI is hoping people will do.
Put those weirs models in a sub-menu for advanced users if you really want to, but is you can use o1 there is probably no reason for you to hake o3-mini and o3-mini-high as additional options.