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OpenAI o4-mini publicly released on: 2025-04-16 by OpenAI — successor to o3-mini reasoning model with multimodal input + tool use.
Last verified 2026-05-16 · Methodology veritas-v0.1 · dc1848333261768b
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- OpenAI o4-mini
- Predicate
publicly_released_on- Object
- 2025-04-16 by OpenAI — successor to o3-mini reasoning model with multimodal input + tool use
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- 100%
- Tags
- o4-mini · openai · reasoning-model · multimodal · tool-use · released_on · 2025
Sources (2)
[1] official blog · OpenAI · 2025-04-16
Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini“We're introducing the latest models in our o-series: OpenAI o3 and OpenAI o4-mini, our smartest, most capable models to date — for the first time integrating tool use directly into chain-of-thought reasoning.”
[2] docs · OpenAI · 2025-04-16
o4-mini model documentation
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