OpenAI Leads with o3-pro at 80% Lower Cost
June 16, 2025Posted by Federico Ulfo
o3 pro performs just like or better than o3 in most benchmarks including ARC1 and ARC2. What's incredible about it, is the cut in cost by 80%, basically costing as much as 4o-mini!
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1932489573462081898
Twitter did what Twitter does, speculating on o3 using distillation, but some insider says that OpenAI have been using Codex internally to optimize the heck out of it, obtaining the incredible 80% without performance losses.
OpenAI retention curve is a wet dream for most investors. Their 1 month retention has skyrocketed from <60% 2yrs ago to an unprecedented ~90%! Youtube was best-in-class with ~85%. 6mo retention is trending to ~80%. Rapidly rising smile curve.
