After effectively canceling the consumer launch of its o3 reasoning model in February, OpenAI now says it aims to release both o3 and a next-gen successor, o4-mini, in “a couple of weeks.” In a post on X on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the reversal in course is related to OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, which OpenAI has previously said will be a unified model incorporating so-called reasoning capabilities. “[W]e are going to be able to make GPT-5 much better than we originally thought,” Altman wr...